Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 169

Montega, Genève, "Certified Chronometer," No. 01596, Ref. MC 01. Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water resistant to 50 m., stainless steel and diamond/ sapphire gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an integrated, stainless steel bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. This watch comes with a 1 year warranty from the date of the auction. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, reeded curved decoration on the band, bezel set with 60 round diamonds and 148 pink sapphires, transparent case back with 16 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Pink mother-of-pearl with luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 45-minute and 6- hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5, outer ring with tachometer graduation. Luminous steel "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 2047, rhodiumplated, 57 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with blue-painted decoration. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.