Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 82

"Chrono 1000" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor Panerai - 1000, Automatic Chrono" No. G 143/1000, Ref. OP 6607. Made in a limited edition of 1000 pieces in 2004. Fine and rare, large, cushion-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant to 1000 meters, brushed stainless steel diver's chronometer wristwatch with helium escape valve, round button chronograph, registers, date, unidirectional revolving bezel for decompression times, and a stainless steel Officine Panerai buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and buttons, straight lugs, patented crown with security lever to wind the watch even underwater, domed sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous baton indexes and Arabic numeral, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. OP XII, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Glucydur balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with special Panerai decoration. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 47 x 47 mm. Thickness 19 mm.