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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 194

"Luminor - Automatic Chrono" Officine Panerai, Firenze 1860, "Luminor - Automatic Chrono", No. B017/100, Ref. OP 6515. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples in 1999. Very fine, oversized, cushion-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold diver?s wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Officine Panerai deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent screwed-down case back, tachometer graduation on the bezel, straight lugs, winding crown with security lever with integrated chronograph buttons, sapphire crystals. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary sunk dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, central with Panerai decoration. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodiumplated, "oeil-de-perdrix" and special ?Panerai? decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, rotor with engraved Panerai signature. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.