Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 70

HUBLOT REF. 341 BIG BANG CHRONO WHITE CERAMIC & DIAMOND Hublot, Genève, "Big Bang," Chronograph, Automatic, case No. 691420, Ref 341. Made circa 2008. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium, white ceramic and diamonds wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a Hublot rubber strap with a stainless steel deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, hooded lugs, steel bezel fixed with 6 nuts and set with 114 round diamonds, ceramic frame, sapphire crystals. White with applied steel Arabic numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute track with Arabic 5 minute/ seconds marker, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous steel and skeletonized baton hands. Cal. 7750, rhodium-plated, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, skeletonized rotor, hack mechanism.