Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 82

Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum Paul Picot, ?Chronometer Rattrapante - Technicum?, No. 023, Ref. 8888.102. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day, date, and 45-hour power-reserve sector. Accompanied by the original fitted box and certificate.

C. 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. D. Guilloché silver with applied yellow gold dart indexes, subsidiary chapter rings 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. M. Cal. PP 8888, rhodium-plated, ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15.