Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 173

Pink Gold ?Chronometer Rattrapante? Paul Picot, ?Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum?, No. 030, Ref. 8888 102. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold chronometer wristwatch with round-button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, and 45-hour power reserve.

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, screweddown and protected winding-crown, sapphire crystals, push-button between 7 and 8 to operate 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 flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm.