Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 270

HUBLOT REF. 341 BIG BANG TUTTI FRUTTI BLUE TOPAZ PINK GOLD Hublot, Genève, "Big Bang, Chronograph, Automatic - Tutti Frutti," movement No. 12875, case No. 813197, Ref. 341. Made circa 2008. Very fine and elegant, large, self-winding, water- resistant, 18K pink gold, composite, and blue topaz wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a special integrated blue rubber strap with an 18K pink gold and stainless steel Hublot deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, hooded lugs, bezel set with 48 blue topaz baguettes and fixed by 6 titanium nuts, blue composite sides, sapphire crystals. White with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5, outer minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers. Luminous pink gold baton hands. Cal. 2894-2, rhodium-plated, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator, tungsten/steel rotor.