Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 143

?Tambour? Louis Vuitton, "Automatic Chronograph", Ref. Q 1122. Made circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Louis Vuitton buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, polished, rounded band with signature, flat bezel, central geometrical lugs, case back with 6 screws, octagonal winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Bronze with applied steel Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary ?guilloché? sunk dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute graduation and luminous dots, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. LV 277, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.