$12,000
Breitling Chronograph Chrosswind Breitling, Genève, case No. 0454, Ref. K 13055. Made in the 1990s. Fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and later diamond-set wristwatch with round button chronograph, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, tachometer and date, with revolving diamond-set bezel, on 18K yellow gold and later diamond set Breitling Pilot bracelet. Accompanied by wooden Breitling presentation case. To be sold without reserve The Billy Blanks Collection Three-body, solid, polished, screw-down case back, unidirectional rotating bezel with quarter rider tabs, lapidated lugs set with round diamonds, anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Textured white with gold luminous radial Roman numerls, inset mother-of-pearl subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer raised tachometer, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 13, Valjoux 7750 based, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11