Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 195

Yellow Gold ?Chronometer Rattrapante? Paul Picot, ?Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum?, No. 030, Ref. 8888 102. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s chronometer wristwatch with round button splitseconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, 45-hour power-reserve and an 18K yellow gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by original fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped front and back bezels, rounded case band, transparent case-back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, gold screwed bars, screwed-down and protected winding-crown, sapphire crystals, push-button between 7 and 8 to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. D. ?Flinqué? silver with applied yellow gold dart indexes, subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register and the days of the week, the days of the month, sector for the power reserve indication, outer tachometer graduation. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. PP 8888, rhodium-plated, ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm.