$13,750
BREITLING FOR BENTLEY SPECIAL EDITION Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors, Chronograph, Officially Certified Chronometer,” No. 324, case No. 2016898, Ref. K 44362. Made in a special edition in 2008 to commemorate Bentley's collaboration with Breitling, sold August 17th, 2009. Fine, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule, fathometer and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, chronometer certificate, warranty and booklets. 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 at 9, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. Bi-color black and matte silver with applied yellow gold tapered indexes and luminous square dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, double aperture for the large date at 12. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 49, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 17 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-12-07
