BREITLING (CHRONOGRAPHE DE POCHE MILITAIRE / NAVIGATOR - US Army / numéroté), vers 1959
Reference : V10623
€2,500.00
Tax included
Rare military pocket chronograph for navigators, issued to the US Army.
Large aperture steel case with special screwed back (signed Breitling Watch Corp inside the cover and numbered, regulation numbering 5742-1). Black lacquered dial with two counters and hollowed-out railway scale, minute totalizer at 12 o'clock, small seconds hand at 6 o'clock, chronograph release and reset at 12 o'clock by integrated pusher. Painted Arabic numerals and scale. Stylish luminescent hands.
This timepiece comes from a former US Army pilot, and is accompanied by an Army Air Forces Flying School - Napier Field Alabama logbook.
Movement: Mechanical manual winding caliber signed BREITLING WATCH CORP / Valjoux 5 Swiss (numbered).
Note: the last photo on the product page shows our example on the background of double page 152-153 of the book "BREITLING THE BOOK". The pocket chronograph sold is the one in the top right-hand corner of the image.
Additional data
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- Condition : Very good condition (workshop)
- Box : carrying case
- Papers : certificate of expertise VWS by the expert J.C. GUYON