Breguet Type XX Aéronavale 3880ST-M5953
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Availability | SOLD |
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Ref | 3880ST929W6 |
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Case | Mirror polished Stainless-steel with screw-down winding crown, rotating bezel and domed Sapphire crystal. Distinctive Breguet “fluted case-band” finishing on the sides. |
Case Size | 39 mm. |
Movement | Automatic, Breguet caliber 582 (based on the Lemania caliber 1350, but with the addition of a flyback function). |
Functions | Hours, minutes, small-seconds and flyback chronograph. Water resistant 100 m. |
Dial | Black with luminous hands and Arabic numerals. |
Guarantee | 12 Months (manufacturer’s warranty valid until Nov. 2018). |
Condition | Exceptional, even the leather band is near new. |
Box/Papers | Box and Papers. |
Year | Nov. 2016 |
Band | Brown Alligator leather with steel folding clasp by Breguet. |
Stock No | M5953 |
Product Description
“Back in the 1950s, the French Naval Air Army actually commissioned Breguet (and a few other companies) to create a timepiece for the organisation. The watches were required to meet a few pre-requisites, such as the need to have a chronograph with a “retour-en-vol” or flyback function, a power reserve greater than 35 hours, luminescent applications on hand and dial, as well as an accuracy of around 8 seconds per day. Some brands came and went, but Breguet is one of the brands that have managed to survive throughout these years and they have created the Type XX (as well as the Type XXI, and the Type XXII) as homages to the original watches that they had manufactured in the past.”