$3,000
Chronomat Breitling, Genève, Chronomat, case No. 629118, Ref. 769. Made in the early 1950s. Fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, telemeter and slide-rule. Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving ridged bezel and inner graduated silvered ring dial, curved lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. Bicolor black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register, outer graduation for the telemeter and the slide-rule, concentric 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/second Arabic markers, patent number 217 012 above the 6. Luminous white baton hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11