66,000 CHF
L. U.C. Tourbillon Limited Edition Chopard, “L.U.C. Tourbillon Chronometer Huit Jours”, No. 32/100, movement No. 105595, case No. 1327688, Ref. 16/8502. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces in titanium, circa 2006. Extremely fine and very rare, 8-day going, water-resistant, polished titanium wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, special sapphire crystal bridge and dial, Variner balance, four co-axially stacked barrels, power-reserve indication and stainless steel Chopard buckle. Accompanied by the Certificate of Origin and booklet. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave lugs, transparent back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. Brushed gray chapter ring with applied steel baton hour indexes, white painted minute divisions, transparent smoked sapphire crystal center with painted baton hour indexes, power-reserve indication below 12, aperture for the tourbillon, seconds divisions on the crystal. Blued steel luminous skeleton dauphine hands, seconds hand mounted on the tourbillon carriage. Cal. 4TSL “Quattro”, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels in gold chatons, four mainspring barrels co-axially stacked in pairs, one-minute tourbillon regulator with three curved-arm cage, special transparent sapphire crystal bridge, lateral lever escapement, free-sprung Variner balance for exceptionally fine adjustment of the balance’s moment of inertia, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensatin
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
