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.

HKD 45,000 - 65,000

USD 5,800 - 8,500 / CHF 5,800 - 8,500

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.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original