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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 339

Pink Gold Grand Prix Monaco Historique Rattrapante Chopard Genève "Grand Prix Monaco Historique Rattrapante", No. 22/50, Ref. 16/1890. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2003. Sold on January 10, 2005. Very fine and rare, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph with registers, date and an 18K pink gold Chopard buckle. Accompanied by the Certificate of Origin.

C. Two-body, polished, curved lugs, transparent case back held by 6 screws, button at 10 for the split-seconds, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone cream and black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, luminous indexes, outer fifths of a second divisions, guilloché black subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, date aperture between 4 and 5. Luminous pink gold skeleton baton hands. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.