Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 165

"Daylight" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Daylight" - Luminor Chronograph", Automatic, PAM 196, No. I 0044/1000, OP 6665. Made in a limited edition of 1000 pieces in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, cushion-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel diver's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Panerai double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, tachometer graduation on the bezel, straight lugs, patented winding-crown security lever with integrated chronograph buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous black "baton" hands. M. Cal. OP 1185, rhodium-plated, engraved with special Panerai decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with special Panerai decoration. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 44 x 44 mm. Thickness 16 mm.