Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 143

?The Gold Bar? Piaget, Swiss, No. 247470, Ref. 9088. Made circa 1980. Very fine and novel, heavy, desk, purse and pocket watch concealed in a bar of 0.999 pure gold. To be sold without reserve

C. Outer: two-body, polished, engraved 0.999, sliding cover, the watch concealed and on a spring-loaded hinge, inner: two body, cushion-shaped, polished and brushed, secured by four screws.
D. Satine gold with baton indexes. Black gold ?baton? hands.
M. Cal 9P, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, and 5 positions, self-compensating balance spring. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 49 x 30 x 9 mm.
Property of an English Gentleman