Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 163

PARMIGIANI FLEURIER LIMITED EDITION TORIC RATTRAPANTE WHITE GOLD Parmigiani Fleurier, "Edition Limitee", No. 08/10, movement No. 001568, No. 6564. Made in a limited series of 10 examples, sold on September 20th, 2001. Very fine and rare, 18K white gold wristwatch with oval button split-chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Parmigiani Fleurier double deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and guarantee booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished, stepped and reeded bezel, transparent case back, straight curved lugs, sapphire crystals, co-axial button in the winding crown to activate the split-chronograph function. Salmon pink with applied white gold Arabic 12 and dots indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/second divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Blue steel spear hands. Cal. 271 based on Venus 179, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.