Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 257

CHOPARD REF. 16/1912 L.U.C. STRIKE ONE PINK GOLD LIMITED EDITION Very fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold Chronometer wristwatch with date, striking mechanism for passing strike once every hour and an 18K pink gold Chopard buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, L.U.C Chronometer Certificate and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished, rounded bezel, concave lugs, push button at 10 to activate or deactivate the striking mechanism, transparent back with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. Bicolor sunburst gray and black, skeletonized pink gold chapter ring with radial Roman numerals and dart indexes, rotating seconds disc with red triangle under a half-moon shaped aperture at 6, apertures for the date at 3, the visible striking mechanism at 1 and striking on / off indication at 12. Pink gold dauphine hands. L.U.C. Cal. 96 SH, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold microrotor engraved L.U.C, hack mechanism.