1,984 CHF
Breitling, Geneve, Top-Time, Ref. 2002, No. 1166480, made in 1967. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman' s wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer, with leather strap and stainless steel buckle. two body, polished, concave back edge, lapidated lugs. matted silver with applied steel and tritiumcoated indexes, auxiliary "guilloche" black seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Baton" tritium-coated hands. Notes Top-Time At the beginning of the sixties, Breitling devoted a new series of watches called Top Time to young people. They had correctly recognized that the future belonged to the young, and a market analysis showed that more than 50% of buyers were under 25 years of age. The Top Time was worn by James Bond in the 20th Century-Fox movie Operation Thunderbolt. A similar watch is published in Breitlingby Benno Richter, p. 43.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-04-24
