1,920 CHF
Breitling Chronomat Limited Edition Breitling Blue Impulse Jet Team Japan Breitling, "Chronomet Blue Impulse", No. 0684/1000, Ref. A 13048. Made in a limited edition of 1000 examples in 1994 to commemorate the Breitling Blue Impulse Jet team Japan. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down protected winding-crown, screwed-down case back with embossed Blue Impulse logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. Silver with guilloche sunray pattern with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, blue subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, the Blue Impulse logo, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm. Approx. overall length 170 mm. Notes Blue Impulse or 11 Squadron, is the aerobatic demonstration team of theJapan Air Self –Defense Force. Originally formed in 1
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08
