Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Mar 18, 2017

LOT 37

PIAGET REF. 12978 AUTOMATIC CHRONOGRAPH PLATINUM Piaget, Chronograph Automatic, case No.801282, Ref. 12978. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and date. Accompanied by guarantee.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, stepped bezel, fluted lugs, domed sapphire crystal. Copper-colored with painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds division, aperture for the date at 6. Steel dauphine hands. Cal.1185, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.