Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 170

?Luminor Submersible - Chrono 1000 m? Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor Panerai ? 1000, Automatic Chrono", No. 0717/1000, PAM 187, OP 6607. Made in a limited edition of 1000 pieces in 2004. Fine and rare, large, cushion-shaped, selfwinding, water-resistant to 1000 meters, brushed stainless steel diver?s chronometer wristwatch with helium escape valve, screwed-down button chronograph, registers, date, unidirectional revolving bezel for decompression times and a stainless steel Officine Panerai buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and pushers, straight lugs, patented crown with security lever, 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. Luminous steel "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. OP XII, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with special Panerai decoration. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 19 mm.