Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 20, 2001

LOT 245

Paul Picot Genève, ?La Rattrapante Atelier?, No. 225. Produced in the 1990?s.Very important and fine, astronomic, anti-magnetic, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with oval button split-second chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases, 38 hours autonomy.

C. three-body, solid, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, back with screws and sapphire glass porthole, fluted and curved straight lugs. D. ?guilloché? silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, the months, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the moon phases. ?Breguet? blued steel hands. M. Cal. Venus 179 elaborated and speciallfinished by Paul Picot to PP 310, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 22 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Signed on the dial, numbered on the case.Diam. 42 mm.