Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 18

"PanoRetroGraph" Glashütte Original, Glashütte i./ Sa., "Pano- RetroGraph", No. 0154. Production of this reference started in 2000. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button fly-back chronograph, count down timer with acoustic signal and panorama-date.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 5 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied pink gold baton indexes on a plain silver reserve for the off-center hour and minute dial at 10, subsidiary seconds dial at 7, apertures for the 30-minute recorder at 2 and the oversized date at 5. Pink gold "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 60, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels partially in screwed gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with gold screws, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance cock, repeating on gong at end of chosen countdown interval. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 13 mm.