$82,600
“Mulliner Tourbillon” Breitling, Genève, for “Bentley Motors - Mulliner Tourbillon”, Officially Certified Chronometer, No. 1884B008, case No. L18841. Made in very few examples only, production of this model started in 2005. Extremely fine, rare and unusual, oversized, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button 30-second chronograph, register, tachometer, date, slide-rule and an 18K white gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a special fitted wooden box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, lapidated lugs, transparent case back with burl wood veneer ring, sapphire crystals. Black with applied mother-of-pearl inlaid white gold indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the date and the 15- minute register, outer 1/6th seconds and tachometer graduations, outermost revolving white slide-rule, aperture for the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator under a hobnailpattern decorated bridge. Luminous white gold "bâton" hands. Cal. 18B, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" and “oeil-de-perdrix” decoration, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness: 16 mm. To be sold without reser
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14
