Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 56

"Luminor - Automatic Chrono" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor - Automatic Chrono", No. B 021/100, Ref. OP 6515. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples in 1999. Very fine, oversized, cushion-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold diver's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Officine Panerai buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent screwed-down case back, tachometer graduation on the bezel, straight lugs, patented crown with security lever to wind the watch even under water, sapphire crystals. D. Black with luminous indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, center with Panerai decoration. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" and special "Panerai" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, rotor with engraved Panerai signature. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.