2,280 CHF
Type 12 Aircraft Clock Breguet, “Type 12”, Ref. 2629. Made in the 1950s. Fine and very rare, keyless clock for aeronautical use with chronograph and instantaneous 15-minute register. Three-body, black patinated, secured by four screws to a black painted backplate, rotating bezel, winding crown and start/stop lever below the dial, lever for return-to-zero at 7, hand-setting lever at 5. Black with luminous Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions, outermost luminous fivesecond numerals and dot divisions on an inclined ring rotating with the bezel, subsidiary 15-minute register. Luminous white baton hands. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Dim. 114 x 68 mm. Notes These clocks were used in aircraft and helicopters, often mounted in the center of the steering controls. For further examples see: Military Timepieces, Konrad Knirim, Pomp, 2002, p. 558-567.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04
