Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 46

Stainless Steel "Flying Tourbillon" Chronoswiss, "Régulateur à Tourbillon ", Ref. CH 3123. Made circa 2004. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, regulator dial and double barrel. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent screwed-down case back, ribbed back and front bezel, straight lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. guilloché silver with painted radial Arabic numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary off-center ring dial with painted Roman numerals at 12 for the hours, aperture for the visible tourbillon cage at 6. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. C. 361, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement with oneminute flying tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage and blued screws, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, double barrel. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.