Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 53

?Platinum rattrapante No. 2? Chopard Genève, "Chronographe Minutes Rattrapante", No. 02/25, Ref. 34/91243. Produced in a limited edition of 25 examples in the 1990s. Very fine and rare self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with split-seconds chronograph and registers and a Chopard platinum clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. D. ?Guilloché? black with applied white gold Arabic and dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, Luminous white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, the push-button at 10 is to activate the split-seconds mechanism.. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.