Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 48

PIAGET REF. 12978 AUTOMATIC CHRONOGRAPH PLATINUM Piaget, Genève, "Chronograph Automatic," case No. 801282, Ref. 12978. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and date. Accompanied by a blank guarantee and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, stepped bezel, fluted lugs, domed sapphire crystal. Copper-colored with painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds division, aperture for the date at 6. White gold dauphine hands. Cal. 1185, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.