$3,910
Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors", "30-Seconds Chronograph", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. A25362, case No. 714201. Produced in 2003 to commemorate Bentley’s participation in the 24 Hour Le Mans races and to celebrate its cooperation with Breitling. Fine and rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 meters, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, slide-rule, date and a stainless steel Breitling bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, polished, bidirectional rotating steel bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with Bentley logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with steel indexes and luminous square dots, subsidiary "guilloche" dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. Cal. 25, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 450 mm. Notes 30 seconds chronograph This Breitling for Bentley watch has a center sweep-seconds hand that makes one revolution per half minute instead of the usual 60 seconds. This very unusual configuration allows the time to be read with a precision of 1/8 of a second.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-09-22
