$1,840
“Cosmonaute” Breitling, Genève, "Cosmonaute", Certified Chronometer, Ref. 81600. Made circa 1995. Fine, water-resistant to 30 m, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with 24- hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, case back engraved with an equivalence scale for Celsius and Fahrenheit, lapidated lugs. Bicolor black and silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary “guilloché” dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the slide-rule and the telemeter. Tritium-coated steel "bâton" hands. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, blued steel flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-12-07