$16,675
Paul Picot, “Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum”, No. 169, Ref. 8888 102. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman’s chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, 45 hours power-reserve and an 18K pink gold Paul Picot link bracelet and deployant clasp. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped front and back bezels, rounded case band, transparent case-back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, gold screwed bars, screwed-down and protected winding-crown, sapphire crystals. The push-button between 7 and 8 is to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. “Guilloché” silver with applied pink gold dart indexes, subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register and the days of the week, the days of the month, sector for the up-and-down indication, outer tachometer graduation. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Cal. PP 8888, rhodium-plated, “oeil-de-perdrix” decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm.Approx. overall length 180 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-12-01
