Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 224

Paul Picot, Genève, ?La Rattrapante Technicum?, No 14. Produced circa 1998. Very fine and important, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, double date, 45 hours power reserve and a gold Paul Picot buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, solid, polished, stepped front and back bezels, rounded band, transparent case-back with screws, curved straight lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystals, screwed-in and protected winding-crown. The push-button between 7 and 8 is to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. D. ?guilloché? silver with applied gold dart indexes, auxiliary ring dials for the seconds, the 30 minute register and the days of the week, for the days of the month, sector for the up-and-down indication, outer tachometer graduation. ?Breguet? blued steel hands. M. Cal. 8888, rhodium-plated, ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, 27 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm.