Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 350

PAUL PICOT FIRSHIRE Paul Picot, Swiss, "Firshire", "Automatic, Chronometer?, No. 1312, Ref. 4034. Made in circa 2000. Fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer's wristwatch with date and 44-hour power reserve indication. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, rounded case band, case-back secured by 4 screws, corrector on the band for the date, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with applied stainless steel roman indexes, outer minute division with every fi ve-minute radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the date at 9 and the seconds at 6, sector for the up-and-down indication at 3. Blued steel breguet hands. M. Cal. PP 1230-B, based Eta 2892, rhodium-plated, oeil-de perdrix decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance-spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism, 22k gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 42 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.