Monday, December 05, 2005

The "Vintage Serie"
Breitling "Three-Tone Dial"


Made circa 1925. Staybrite keyless dress watch with co-axial single button chronograph, register, tachymeter and telemeter. Three-body case, polished and brushed, stepped inclined bezel. Three–tone dial silvered with painted Arabic numerals and baton indexes, inner spiral telemetric scale, outer minute track with concentric fifths of a second and telemeter scales, subsidiary seconds at 6 and 30-minute recording dial at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. Movement 17’’, rhodium plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Diam. 47 mm.

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