25,000 HKD
BREITLING REF. A35330 SPECIAL EDITION 100 YEARS AVIATION STEEL Breitling, "Montbrillant Chronometer Certified, Edition Special, 100 Ans Aviation 1903 - 2003, Automatic," case No. 422739, Ref. A 35330. Made in 2003 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first flight. Fine and rare, large, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942) and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a service pouch, Chronometer certificate, warranty (now void) and instruction manual. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving reeded slide-rule bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black and matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, guilloché sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterWEIGHT and a Breitling "B". Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de perdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 15 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-07-09
