Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 210

Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum Paul Picot, ?Chronometer Rattrapante ? Technicum,? No. 131, Ref. 8888.102. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, 45-hour power reserve sector and an 18K yellow gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by the original box, warranty, Certificate of Origin and instruction booklet.

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. The push-button between 7 and 8 is to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. D. Guilloche silver with applied yellow gold dart indexes, subsidiary chapter rings for the seconds, the 30-minute register and the days of the week, the days of the month, sector for the up-and-down 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. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.