BREGUET. A STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH AVIATOR'S-STYLE WRISTWATCH

SIGNED BREGUET, MODEL "TYPE XX", CIRCA 1975

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BREGUET. A STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH AVIATOR'S-STYLE WRISTWATCH
Signed Breguet, model "Type XX", circa 1975
With nickel-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, mono-metallic balance, black matte dial with luminescent Arabic numerals, three subsidiary dials for constant seconds, hour and minute registers, circular water-resistant-type case with rotating black bezel calibrated for 60 minutes, down-turned lugs, screw back, dial signed
41mm diam.

Lot Essay

Breguet first introduced the "Type XX" aviator's chronograph circa 1954. Equipped with the fly-back, or retour en vol function, this model provided a beneficial ease of use especially to pilots.

For a similar example of the second generation of the "Type XX" chronograph wristwatch see Breguet, Breguet: Watchmakers since 1775, p. 354.

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