Breguet started producing the 'Type XX' arou♌nd 1954, and it quickly became the company's most sought after post-war aviator's wristwatch. The reference has a special flyback feature, so-called by the French Air Forces 'retour en vol', which enabled pilots to quickly reset and instantaneously restart the ♛chronograph by means of one pusher.

There are three generations of the 'Type XX': the first of which was introduced in the 1950s and of which the present lot is an example, the second known as the 'civilian version' introduced in the 1970s, and the third version currently available on the market, known as 'Type XX Aer🌟onav🙈al.'

A special featur🌸e of this particular watch is that it has a 15-minute chronograph subsidiary dial, instead of the usual 30-minute counter found on the more common Air Force models.