Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 66

Chopard L.U.C. Dual Time-Zone GMT Chopard, "L.U.C. Automatic GMT", No. 0074/1860, movement 4005521, case No. 985343, Ref. 16/1867. Made in a limited edition of 1860 pieces, circa 2002. Very fine, two time zone, center-seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 24-hour night and day indication for the second time zone, date and an 18K yellow gold Chopard buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, COSC certificate and booklets.

C. Three-body, polished, concave lugs, corrector on the band for advancing the second time zone hand in one-hour increments, transparent back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver, inner guilloche decoration with applied yellow gold faceted dart indexes, outer minute divisions, subsidiary dial for the 24-hour second time zone indication concentric with day and night indication, aperture for the date. Yellow gold dauphine hands. M. Cal. 4.96/1-H1, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isocrhonism and to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self compensating flat balance spring, gold micro-rotor. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10 mm.