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Breguet. A fine and rare stainless steel manual wind flyback chronograph wristwatch Type XX, Circa 1970 image 1
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Breguet. A fine and rare stainless steel manual wind flyback chronograph wristwatch
Type XX, Circa 1970

19 June 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Breguet. A fine and rare stainless steel manual wind flyback chronograph wristwatch

Model: Type XX
Date: Circa 1970
Movement: Jewelled Valjoux Cal.725 manual wind, column wheel chronograph
Dial: Black, luminous Arabic numeral hour markers, white outer minute divisions with 5 minute markers, subsidiary dials at 3, 6 and 9 for seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour recording, white baton hands with luminous inserts, centre chronograph hand
Case: Brushed and polished round, screw down back, black calibrated bezel, crown flanked by twin chronograph pushers, No.B21804 358664
Strap/Bracelet: Associated brown leather
Buckle/Clasp: Associated steel buckle
Signed: Dial
Size: 40mm

Footnotes

The Type XX watch was not limited to one brand but was the format used by the French Ministry to instruct the manufacturer the specific functions and styling required. The Breguet Type XX has become one of the most famous due to the quality of the watch and the fact they reissued it as a civilian watch both at the time and as a reproduction more recently.

Breguet produced their first batch of 2000 watches for the military in 1954. Before that they made various prototypes to test features. The required design included in the Type XX specifications were that the watches had to have a black dial, registers situated at 3 and 9 for constant seconds and a minute recording register and flyback for the chronograph while running.

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