Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 223

Paul Picot Genève, ?La Rattrapante Atelier 310?, No 060/200. Produced in a limited edition of 200 examples circa 1998. Very fine and important, astronomic, anti-magnetic, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with olive shaped button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date, moon phases, 38 hours power reserve and a gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, solid, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, transparent case-back with screws, sapphire crystals, fluted and curved straight lugs. D. ?guilloché?silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, the days of the month, of the week, the months, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the moon phases. ?Breguet? blued steel hands. M. Cal. Venus 179 of the 1940?s elaborated and modified by Paul Picot to the PP 310, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 22 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometric regulator. Dial signed. Case numbered. Diam. 42 mm.