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. | Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces | Hong Kong, July 9th, 2016
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.
