Description
Breitling Top Time Ref. 2211 steel vintage chronograph, circa 1969
A stainless steel manually wound chronograph wristwatch with scales for pulsometer and units per hour
A bright and colourful chronograph, this model has a cushion-form case with a satin finish to the upper body. The silvered dial has unusually shaped elliptical subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 45-minute chronograph register. At the edge of the dial, scales are calibrated for pulsometer and units-per-hour. The pulsation scale is graduated for 15 pulsations, meaning that the user may start their chronograph as they feel a subject’s first pulse and stop it after the 15th pulse, the chronograph seconds hand will then show the patient’s pulse rate on the orange scale to the edge of the dial. The UPH (units-per-hour) scale can be used to calculate hourly production rates or it may be used in the same manner as a tachymeter to measure speed over a set distance.
Technical details
[M] Breitling finished Venus calibre 175, lever escapement, 17 jewels, mono-metallic balance, 18,000 BPH, Incabloc shock absorber [D] silvered satin finished dial, applied faceted baton hour indexes with luminescent accents above, orange hands with luminescent panels (please note that luminescence will have naturally dulled with age), two elliptically-shaped black subsidiary dials with diagonal ribbing and calibrated for constant seconds and 45-minute register, outer black track for minutes/chronograph seconds, the edge of the dial calibrated for 15 pulsations and with separate scale for calculating units-per-hour [C] stainless steel two-piece cushion-form case, the upper body with satin finished bezel, screw-down case back, Breitling crown [S] case, dial, movement and crown signed
Measurements
Width excluding winding crown: 38mm
Length including lugs: 41mm
Depth to centre of crystal: 12mm
Lug gauge/strap width: 21mm
This watch has been fully serviced and is sold with a one year guarantee. A Black Bough certificate and leather watch pouch will accompany this watch.
£1575.00 [SOLD]