311,500 CHF
Unique and MostComplicated Wristwatch in the World Gérald Genta, Geneva, "Grande Sonnerie",No. 1, Ref. G0025.7. Made in 1994, part of a series of only four examples: one in yellow gold, one in pink gold (this lot), one in white gold and one in platinum.Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's pink gold wristwatch with Westminster chime, Grande et Petite Sonnerie and silent display, four gongs and four hammers, minute-repeating, perpetual calendar, leap year indication, a second 24-hour time zone, 48-hour power reserve indicator for the going and striking trains, with one-minute tourbillon regulator in fully engraved movement, and a pink gold Gérald Genta deployant clasp. two-body, truncated cone-shaped, stepped and decorated in a wave pattern, octagonal, glazed back with sapphire crystal secured by bolts, "Vendôme" lugs with pink gold screwed bars, Genta winding-crown at 3, Grande et Petite Sonnerie at 7, repeater at 9, silent/striking at 11, pushbuttons on the band for adjusting the retrograde calendar and 24-hour indications. gold, with four subsidiary mother-of-pearl dials, tritium dot indexes, four auxiliary sectors in Arabic writing for silence-chimet 10, going-train up-and-down indication at 2, 48-hour power-reserve indication at 4, Grande et Petite Sonnerie indicator at 8, second 24-hour time zone under the 12. Pink gold tritium-coated "bâton" hands, red hand for the seconds. Notes No other wristwatch
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
