Contemporary, Limited Edition and Col...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 13, 1999

LOT 131

Paul Picot, Geneve, La Rattrapante Atelier 310, No. 084/200, completed on 12 September 1998. Very important and fine, astronomic, anti-magnetic, 18K yellow gold gentleman 's wristwatch with olive shaped button split-second chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases, 38 hours power reserve, with fitted box and certificate.

C. three body, massive, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, back with screws and sapphire glass porthole, fluted and curved straight lugs. D. "guilloche " 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 cotes " decoration, 22 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Signed on the dial, numbered on the case. Diam. 42 mm.