Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 20

CHOPARD MILLE MIGLIA BRESCIA ROME CLASSIC CAR RACE STEEL Chopard, Mille Miglia, case No. 915385, Ref. 8920, No. 0611. Made in 2002 for the Brescia ? Rome ? Classic car race. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer bezel, date and a stainless steel Chopard buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, inclined tachometer bezel to 240 UPH, curved lugs, case back with 8 screws and engraved with a map of the Brescia-Rome circuit, sapphire crystal. D. Black with painted luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, red ?Mille Miglia 1000? logo, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2892A2 with chronograph module, 37 jewels, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.