Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 380

Paul Picot ? 25 Years-Technicum Paul Picot, Geneve, ?Chronometer Rattrapante ? Technicum? No. 07/10, Ref. 8888.103. Made in a limited series of 10 examples, sold on September, 2001. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold and diamond chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, 45-hour power reserve sector and an 18K white gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by the original box, warranty, certificate, COSC certificate 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, bezel and lugs set wit 80 brilliant cut diamonds (2.0 ct), sapphire crystals. The push-button between 7 and 8 is to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. D. Guilloche silver with applied white gold dart indexes and ?25 Years? between 4 and 5, 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, index regulator, hack mechanism 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm. The Property of a German Collector