Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 258

TH. PICARD FILS CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD TH. Picard Fils, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss, case No. 1438. Made in the 1960s. Fine, large, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. Matte silver with applied pink gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th second track with Arabic 5 second markers, outermost tachometer scale to 1000 UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register. Pink gold dauphine hands. Cal. 22, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.