Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 24

BREITLING FOR BENTLEY SPECIAL EDITION REF. K25362 30-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors - 30- Seconds Chronograph, Officially Certified Chronometer," No. 310, case No. 739378, Ref. K 25362. Made in a special edition in 2003 to commemorate Bentley's participation in the "24 Hours of Le Mans" races and to celebrate its collaboration with Breitling. Very fine, large, self-winding, water resistant to 100 m, 18K yellow gold Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by the original Breitling box, Chronometer Certificate, warranty, hang tag and instruction manual.

Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley logo, helium escape valve, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with yellow gold indexes and luminous square dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 25, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism.