Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 195

"Platinum Octa Chronograph" F. P. Journe, "Invenit et Fecit", "Octa Chronograph", No. 082-03 C. Made in 2003. Very fine and rare, self-winding, waterresistant, platinum gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, register, large date and a platinum F. P. Journe buckle. To be sold without reserve Property of a Canadian Collector

C. Two-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Off-center guilloché silver with painted radial Arabic numerals for the hours and minutes on brushed 18K white gold plate, subsidiary guilloché silver dials for the seconds and the 60- minute register, aperture for the double disc date. Blued steel "Journe"-style hands. M. Cal. 1300, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic 4-arm balance with 4 timing weights adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, off-center bidirectional guilloché 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved "Exclusive Power Reserve System" and "Precision Chronometer". Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10 mm.