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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 216

Stainless Steel Regatta Flyback Officine Panerai, ?Luminor Regatta, Flyback?, movement No. 01207, case No. BB1198348, No. 102/500, Ref. OP 6640. Made in a limited series of 500 examples in 2006 for the ?Classic Yachts Challenge?. Sold on April 2006. Very fine and rare, water resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch, round button fly-black chronograph, register, tachometer and a stainless steel Panerai buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, certificate and booklets.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel, slightly curved lugs, transparent screwed-down case back, winding crown with patented security lever, sapphire crystals. D. Black ?Tapisserie? decoration with applied luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer ring with tachometer graduation. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. OP XIX, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 44 x 44 mm. Thickness 18 mm.