Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Dec 06, 2000

LOT 184

Paul Picot Genève, La Rattrapante Atelier 310, No. 091/200, made in 1998.Very important and fine, astronomic, antimagnetic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with oval shaped button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases, 38 hours power reserve, leather strap and an 18K yellow 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, back with screws and transparent back, sapphire crystal, 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 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'selaborated 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, micrometer regulator.Dial signed, numbered on the case.Diam. 42 mm.