12,500 CHF
Breitling “Split Chronograph”, case No. 768828, Ref. 783. Made in 1950. Very fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch with square button split-chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by fitted box. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, inverted bezel, snap-on case back, split-chronograph function activated by the winding crown. Silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th second/minute divisions with every five Arabic numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45 minute register. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. Venus 179, copper colored, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
