Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 171

Montega, Genève, "Certified Chronometer", No. 5425/19999, Ref. MC 01. Made in a limited edition of 19,999 stainless steel pieces in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water resistant to 50 m., stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an integrated, stainless steel and black rubber 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 black rubber decoration on the band, transparent case back with 16 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied steel Arabic numerals, round and dart indexes, 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, rhodium-plated, 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.