Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 408

Mille Miglia ? GTXL Chronograph Chopard, Genève, "Mille Miglia ? GTXL - Gran Turismo XL," Certified Chronometer, No. 348/500, case No. 1384049, Ref. 16/1268. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in 2007 for the Brescia ? Rome ? Brescia classic car race. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100m, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, tachometer bezel and a black rubber ?tire-tread? strap with an 18K yellow gold Chopard buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, inclined tachometer bezel to 240 UPH, concave lugs, case back with 8 screws and engraved with a map of the Brescia-Rome circuit, protected screw-down winding crown, domed sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Satine gray with applied luminous yellow gold shield-shaped indexes, Arabic 12 and 6 under the crystal, outer red dot minute divisions, 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic numerals, red "1000 Miglia" logo, aperture for the date, applied gray subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands, red arrow chronograph hand.M. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.