$2,760
Breitling Genève, “Navitimer 92 Chronograph”, Ref. K 30021. Produced circa 1977. Fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, 18K yellow gold, water-resistant, gentleman’s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter and slide-rule, and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. Blue dial three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional revolving ridged and graduated matte silver bezel, screwed-down case back with logo, lapidated lugs. black and “guilloché” matte silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, outer graduation for the 1/5th second, the minutes, the slide-rule and the telemeter. “Bâton” tritium-coated hands. Notes A similar watch is published in “Breitling” by Benno Richter, p. 131. Navitimer. Trademark registered in La Chaux-de-Fonds on February 26, 1955. “Chrono-Matic”, the first self-winding Navitimer, was launched in 1969. It was patented together with the manufacturers Dubois et Dupraz SA. The design of this watch required the winding-crown to be moved to the “9” position, which at first seemed like a surprising innovation. Since this watch does not often need to be manually wound, it follows that the chronograph buttons would be better located on the right side of the case.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-03-13
