Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 253

DANIEL ROTH CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC PINK GOLD Daniel Roth, Chronograph Automatic, No. 83. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, double ellipse-shaped, self-winding, water- resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with date, square-button chronograph, registers and an 18K pink gold Daniel Roth deployant clasp.

Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 4 screws, stepped band, rounded bezel, screw down winding crown, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. Guilloche copper color with painted radial Roman numerals and luminous dots on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous blued steel arrow hands. Cal. 400, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.