Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 395

PAUL PICOT REF. 100 RATTRAPANTE Paul Picot, Genève, "Rattrapante", No. 060, Ref. 100. Made in the late 1990's. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with ovalshaped button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded and stepped front and back bezels, band and push-buttons, transparent case back with 6 screws, fl uted straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, the months, outer 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 2B, rhodium-plated, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm