Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 22, 2014

LOT 83

PANERAI REF. PAM 348 "LO SCIENZIATO" RADIOMIR TOURBILLON GMT CERAMICA FIRST EXAMPLE OFFERED AT AUCTION Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, No. M 23 / 30, case No. BB 1454822. Made in a unique edition of 30 units in 2010. Very fine and extremely rare, large, cushion-shaped, two time zone, water resistant, skeletonized ceramic wristwatch with one minute dual axes tourbillon, three barrels, 6 day power reserve indicator, 24-hour indication and a black coating stainless steel Panerai double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box, certificate, international guarantee certificate, instruction booklet, booklet (Lo Scienziato 2010, Tribute to Galileo Galilei 2011 and Panerai catalog 2010), Galileo's Telescope book, additional straps(x3), hang tag and sticker.

Three-body, brushed black ceramic, transparent screw-down titanium coated case back, screw-down winding crown, wire lugs secured by four screws, concave bezel, sapphire crystal. Transparent with luminous Arabic and baton indexes chapter ling, subsidiary dials for the seconds at 9, for the AM & PM indication at 6, at 11 aperture for the visible tourbillion regulator. Luminous black baton hands. Cal. P 2005/S, 31 jewels, three barrels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, 28,800 vibrations per hour, self compensating flat balance spring, the tourbillion cage rotates on an axis parallel to the base of the movement at right angles to the axis of oscillation of the balance, the cage makes two rotations per minute, 6-day power reserve indication on the plate.