"Chronograph Gouverneur" Piaget, Genève, "Chronograph Gouverneur - Automatic", Ref. 12978. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Piaget buckle. | Important Collectors Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks & Horological Tools | New York, 14th June 2006
"Chronograph Gouverneur" Piaget, Genève, "Chronograph Gouverneur - Automatic", Ref. 12978. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Piaget buckle., USD 7,000 - 10,000 EUR 5,500 - 8,500 C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, stepped bezel, fluted lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Copper-colored with painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the date at 6. White gold "dauphine" hands. M. 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 10 mm.
