1,800 CHF
Breitling Chronomat Limited Edition The Red Arrows Breitling, "The Red Arrows Chronomat Serie Limitee", No. 0685/1965, Ref. A 13050.1. Made in a limited edition of 1965 examples in 1996 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Red Arrows team. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished, screwed-down protected windingcrown, screwed-down case back with embossed Red Arrows logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. Red with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, black subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, the Red Arrrows logo, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Notes The Red Arrows are famous throughout the world as ambassadors for both the British Royal Air Force and the United Kingdom. Since the Team was officially formed in 1965, the Red Arrows have completed over 4,000 displays in
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08
