BREGUET. A RARE STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH PILOT'S WRISTWATCH

SIGNED BREGUET, "TYPE XX", CASE NO. B21620, CIRCA 1970

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BREGUET. A RARE STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH PILOT'S WRISTWATCH
Signed Breguet, "Type XX", Case No. B21620, circa 1970
With nickel-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, glucydur balance, black matte dial with luminescent Arabic numerals, luminescent hands, three subsidiary dials indicating constant seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, circular water-resistant-type case with down-turned lugs and screw back, black rotating bezel calibrated for 60 minutes, case, dial and movement signed
41mm diam.

Lot Essay

The French Air Force commissioned Breguet in 1954 to manufacture an aviator's chronograph based on their original 1935 wrist-chronograph. There were three generations of the "Type XX" produced with the present watch from the second generation made during the 1970s and 1980s. The watch has the characteristic raised bezel and squared strap holders. A similar watch "Type XX" is illustrated and described in Breguet: Watchmakers Since 1775, ed. E. Ducamp, pp. 358 and 364.

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