Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 118

Cvstos - Challenge - SteeL - Chrono - Automatic Cvstos, Geneve, "Challenge, Chronograph Automatic," No. 347 ST. Made circa 2008. Fine and unusual, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, power-reserve indication, palladium and titanium alloy rotor and a black rubber Cvstos strap with stainless steel double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a box, certificate, instruction manual and technical specification sheet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, the sides with recessed slotted decoration, hooded lugs with titanium screwed bars, screwed-down winding crown with rubber ring, transparent case back with four screws, non-reflective sapphire crystals. d. Transparent with applied steel indexes, luminous dots and divisions for the minutes on a black outer reserve, subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, sector for the power reserve indication at 3, visible skeletonized black date ring displaying the date beneath a cyclops lens between 4 and 5. Luminous polished steel epée hands, red subsidiary hands. m. Cal. 7750, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator, palladium and titanium alloy rotor. Dial and case signed. Dim. 41 x 53 mm. Thickness 18 mm.