Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 7

CHOPARD REF. 36/91208, CHRONOGRAPHE QUANTIEME PERPETUEL NO.1, YELLOW GOLD Chopard, Genève, No. 01/50, Ref. 36/91208. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples in 1994. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar with leap year indication, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Chopard buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 240 units per hour, concave lugs, protected winding crown, correctors on the band, transparent case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Matte silver with applied luminous yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, the months and the leap year, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous yellow gold baton hands and white gold chronograph hand. M. Cal. 889/1, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 52 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.