Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 119

"Mare Nostrum" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, ?Mare Nostrum?, Ref. OP 6501. Made in 1999. Fine, large, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer and a stainless steel Officine Panerai buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel with tachometer graduation, concave lugs, screwed-down case back, sapphire crystal. D. Blue with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 11''', rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 4 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.