Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 146

?Mille Miglia? Chopard, Genève, ?Mille Miglia?, Chronograph, Chronometer, No. 0261/2003, Ref. 8932. Made in a limited edition of 2003 pieces for the 2003 ?Mille Miglia? race. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Chopard buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, straight lugs, case-back with 8 screws and embossed with the 2003 ?Mille Miglia? race route, tachometer graduation on the bezel, sapphire crystal. D. White with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, the logo "1000 Miglia" and "2003", aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous blued steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2894- 2, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 4 positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.