Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 211

Rattrapante Paul Picot Genève, "Rattrapante," No. 091. Made in the late 1990s. Fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by the original box, guarantee and setting pin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, transparent case-back with 6 screws, fluted straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, the months, outer 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 2B, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.