Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 314

CHOPARD MILLE MIGLIA GTXL CHRONOGRAPH COMPETITOR'S WATCH Chopard, Genève, "Mille Miglia - GTXL - Gran Turismo XL - Competitor Edition 154", Certified Chronometer, case No. 1244991, Ref. 8489. Made circa 2007 for the Brescia - Rome - Brescia classic car race. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100m, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, tachometer bezel and a black rubber "tyre-tread" strap with stainless steel Chopard buckle.

Three-body, polished, inclined tachometer bezel to 240 UPH, concave lugs, case back with 8 screws and engraved with a map of the Brescia-Rome circuit, protected screw-down winding crown, domed sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Satine gray with applied luminous shield-shaped indexes, Arabic 12 and 6 on the crystal, outer red dot minute divisions, 1/5th seconds scale with 5- minute/seconds Arabic numerals, red "1000 Miglia" logo, aperture for the date, applied gray subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous steel baton hands, red arrow chronograph hand. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hacking feature.