Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 70

Paul Picot Genève, "La Rattrapante Atelier 310", No 089/200. Produced in a limited edition of 200 examples in the late 1990's.Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive shaped button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar, moon phases, 38 hours power reserve and a gold Paul Picot buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, transparent case-back with screws, fluted and curved straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. "guilloché" silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute 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'slaborated and modified by Paul Picot to the PP 310, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 22 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial signed. Case numbered.Diam. 42 mm.