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Product overview

  • Box:No
  • Papers:No
  • Age:1940's
  • Movement:manual
  • Case Size:33mm
  • Case:Yellow Gold
  • Dial:Silver Arabic Numeral
  • Bracelet:Black Leather Strap

Lot overview

  • LOT: #001329
  • Location:Dymock, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
  • Seller:
    (private) Sold by an individual
  • Currency:GBP

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Breitling was one of the first companies to launch a wristwatch featuring a chronograph complication. In 1915 they were inspired to introduce a push-piece at 2 o’clock to start, stop and reset the chronograph functions. It was the beginning of the brand’s long association with the development of the chronograph. Indeed, Breitling can be credited with first adding a second pusher at 4 o’clock for resetting the stopwatch function. This design was subsequently copied by many watch brands and remains the norm for modern-day chronographs.

This particularly elegant Breitling chronograph dates from the 1940s. The signed and silvered dial displays a number of scales to measure events. Firstly, a red printed telemetric scale measures the distance between the observer and an event (such as lightning or artillery fire) that is visible and then audible. To the centre of the dial is a blued tachymetric scale for measuring speed over a measured mile, along with a running seconds display and a 45 minute counter. The colourful dial is set off by Arabic numerals and elegant blued hands.

The 33mm yellow gold case, with a snap-on caseback that bears the number 462966, is in good condition. There is some patination to the square chronograph pushers. The movement is described as being jewelled with a cut and compensated balance. The lot is accompanied by a presentation box (not original to the watch) and information from a previous auction sale. The watch is mounted on a black leather strap and falls within the bounds of the seller’s assessment of grade A condition.

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