Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 394

PAUL PICOT REF. 8888 TECHNICUM RATTRAPANTE Paul Picot, ?Chronometer Rattrapante ? Technicum? No. 1169, Ref. 8888.102. Made in the late 1990's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, day and date, power reserve sector and an 18K yellow gold Paul Picot bracelet.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case-back secured by 6 screws, curled straight lugs, faux gold screwed bars, screw-down and protected winding crown, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. The push-button between 7 and 8 is to stop and reunite the split-seconds hand. D. Guilloche 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 balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx length 180 mm.