Breitling Vintage Breitling AVI Pilot Watch SS RARE

Description

Breitling Vintage 765 AVI 765AVI, stainless steel case on a strap, manually wound Venus caliber 178 movement, black dial with silver subdials, triple register chronograph, 15-minute counter with lume plots, steel bi-directional rotating 12-hr bezel, acrylic crystal, circa 1963, diameter: 41mm, thickness: 13mm, Very Rare Watch in Excellent Condition with European Watch Company Pouch and 6 Month Warranty.

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Reference:

765 AVI

Movement:

Automatic

Material:

Stainless Steel

Diameter:

41MM

Thickness:

13MM

Condition:

Like New

EWC#:

26513

More about Vintage Breitling AVI Pilot Watch SS RARE

This is a rare vintage c. 1963 stainless steel Breitling 765 AVI. It has a leather strap with a stainless steel tang buckle, and an acrylic crystal. It has round chronograph push buttons, a screw down winding crown, and a screw down solid case back engraved with "BREITLING – 765 – WATERPROOF – SHOCK PROTECTED – ANTIMAGNETIC – STAINLESS STEEL." The 41mm diameter solid three-body case, curved lugs, and flat coin-edged bi-directional rotating 12-hour bezel with black engraved Arabic numerals, are polished/brushed. The dial is black with luminous tritium baton hour indices and an Arabic numeral at 12 o'clock. There is a perimeter white minute/one-fifth second scale, it has steel baton hands with luminous inserts, and the steel center sweep chronograph seconds hand has an arrow pointer with a tritium insert. There are three "Pie Pan" silver concentric circle guilloche subsidiary dials with black markers and Arabic numerals, including a running small seconds register at 9 o'clock, a 12-hour chronograph totalizer at 6 o'clock, and there is a modified 15-minute subsidiary-register at the 3 o’clock position with 5 lume plots; this gave greater precision to pilots, because the duration of a plane's pre-flight check required to clear for takeoff was fifteen minutes. It's water resistant to 50 meters/165 feet, and it has a 45-hour power reserve at full wind. The 13mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Breitling 765 AVI has a mechanical manually wound caliber Venus 178 with an added column wheel chronograph module. It's considered by many to be one of the most famous column wheel operated chronograph calibers of all time. It's gold plated and it's constructed with 17 jewels, an anti-shock device, and an index regulator. It has a straight-line lever escapement, and a self-compensating flat balance spring. It includes a hacking seconds device for precision time setting, and the mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 18,000 vph (2.5 Hz). The Breitling 765 AVI was introduced in 1953, and it was produced until 1963. The "Reverse Panda" dial was made between 1961 and 1964. It is often referred to as the “Raquel Welch,” after it was made famous by the American actress in her 1967 film, "Fathom."

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