Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 73

Harry Winston, "Premier Chronograph", No. 196. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Harry Winston deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Harry Winston fitted lacquered box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, lobed central and mobile lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Matte silver with 4 applied partly circular plates with black painted Arabic numerals and round yellow gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. FP 1185, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.