Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 339

"Luminor Chrono" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor - Automatic Chrono", No. B 024/100, Ref. OP 6515. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples in 1999. Very fine, large, cushion-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold diver's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

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 underwater, sapphire crystals. D. Black with luminous indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, center with special 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, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, rotor with engraved Panerai signature. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.