Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 240

Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor Blackseal", No. E 017/300, Ref. OP 6546. Produced in a limited edition of 300 examples in 2002. Very fine and rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium, military-type diver?s wristwatch with date, concealed dial and a titanium Panerai buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, brushed titanium, screwed down case back, winding-crown with security lever, hinged steel cover engraved with an underwater scene depicting two divers sitting on a torpedo and cutting wire-mesh, anti-reflective sapphire crystal with "cyclops" lens. D. Bi-colored black and silver with applied luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" seconds dial at 9, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. OP III, rhodium plated, 21 jewels, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed.Diam: 44 mm.