$2,415
RGM Watch Company, Lancaster in Pennsylvania,"Jaguar" Chronograph. Produced as a prototype watch for the Jaguar Motor Company in the 1990s. Fine and very rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 5 atm, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel RGM deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Guilloché two-tone silver with printed radial Arabic numerals on an outer reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date, Jaguar logo at 3. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. Cal. 7750, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm. Notes The watch is a very rare prototype, one of only 2 examples produced in stainless steel.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-05-26
