$19,200
Zalium - Platinum Chronograph Harry Winston, "Zalium - Platinum Chronograph”, Automatic, No. 116/200, Ref. 410- MCA44Z. Made in a limited edition of 200 pieces in 2005. Very fine and very rare, self-winding, water resistant, zalium and platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a Harry Winston titanium buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, zalium, polished and brushed, mobile lugs, screwed-down case back and crown, graduated unidirectional revolving platinum bezel for the decompression times, sapphire crystal. Bicolor satiné anthracite and silver with luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous white gold lozenge hands, blued steel star-shaped seconds hand at 3. Cal. 31C6.S-CH, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes Zalium Zalium is a zirconium-based alloywhose name comes from Zirconium and allium lily. A very hard metal, Zalium is used in jet engines, surgical tools and, more rarely, fine watch cases. Zalium is difficult to work with and must be machined from an ingot. Its dust is very flammable.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
