$8,024
Stainless Steel “Portuguese Chronograph Rattrapante” International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, "Portuguese Chronograph Rattrapante,” Ref. 3712, No. 2895663. Made in the 1990s. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph and register. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, and instruction manual. Three-body, polished and brushed, overhanging front bezel, concave lugs, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dot minute indexes, guilloché subsidiary seconds and 30 minute-register dials. Pink gold "feuille" hands. Cal. C76240, gilt brass, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes What is a split-seconds chronograph? A split-seconds chronograph or 'rattrapante' is a type of chronograph watch with two coaxial superimposed center-seconds hands that are controlled by two pushbuttons. One push-button controls the splitseconds hand to stop or join the chronograph hand. The other push-buttons control both hands and all the functions of the chronograph. The chronograph hand and the split-seconds hand are used for timing several events that start simultaneously, but are of diffrent durations. To operate the split-seconds chronograph, both hands are star
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-09-26
