Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 410

Chopard - Steel & Diamond "Elton John" Chopard, Genève, "Elton John," No. 526/2000, Ref. 8331. Made in a limited edition of 2000 pieces for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Chopard buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, straight lugs, dedicated transparent case back secured by 8 screws and Elton John?s signature, bezel set with 60 round diamonds, sapphire crystal. D. Pink mother-of-pearl with painted radial Arabic numerals on an outer plain reserve, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2894-2, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes and oeil-deperdrix 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. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.