180,000 HKD
Octa Automatique Réserve F. P. Journe, "Invenit et Fecit", "Octa Automatique Réserve", No. 045-AR. Sold on July 26th, 2007. Very fine, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with 120-hour power reserve, large date and an 18K pink gold F.P. Journe buckle. Accompanied by certificate and fitted box. Two-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with painted radial graduated Arabic numerals on a plain outer reserve, subsidiary seconds, sector for the 120-hour up-and-down indication, aperture for the large double digit date. Blued steel Journe hands. Cal. 1300.3 in 18K pink gold, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic 4-arm balance with 4 timing weights adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, off-center bidirectional 22K gold guilloche rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
