Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 297

TUDOR REF. 79263 TIGER PRINCE DATE AUTOMATIC CHRONO-TIME STEEL & GOLD Tudor Prince, Date, Automatic Chrono Time. Ref. 79263. Made in the 2000s. Fine, self-winding, water resistant stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold tachometer bezel and date.

Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, steel bezel with gold tachometer insert, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary brown ring dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. T 7750, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.