Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 309

Chopard ? Luc White Gold Limited Edition Chopard, Genève, "L.U.C. Tonneau", Automatic, No. 0014/1860, Ref. 16/2267. Made in a limited edition of 1860 pieces circa 2005, in honor of the company?s founding by Louis Ulysse Chopard in 1860. Very fine and elegant, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with date and an 18K white gold Chopard buckle. Accompanied by a Chopard box, certificate and COSC. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. d. Black with applied white gold lozenge indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, aperture for the date. White gold dauphine hands. m. Cal. 6.96, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 48 x 40 mm. Thickness 10 mm.