Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 188

The Sporty Schwarz Etienne, ?Olympia, The Sporty, Automatic, Chronograph?, No. 123, case No. 231501, Ref. WOL10A/19SS83AA. Made in a limited series of 125 examples in 2009, sold in August 2009. Fine, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, tachometer, two time zones and a stainless steel Schwarz Etienne double deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and warranty.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs with screw bars, transparent screwed-down case back, sapphire crystals. D. White aluminium with carbon fiber effect, applied luminous steel dart indexes, subsidiary champagne guilloche dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5, outer minute and 1/5th second division, outermost graduation for the second time zone on a champagne reserve inscribed "Greenwich Mean Time". Luminous steel alpha hands, red arrow hand for the second time zone. M. Cal J8104, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, personalized rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm.