$1,800
Van Cleef & Arpels Steel Automatic Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris, La Collection, No. 2575195, case No. 518023, Ref. 94118. Made in the late 1990's. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with day and date, moon phases and a stainless steel Van Cleef & Arpels buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee (now void) and setting pin. Two-body, polished, Vendome-type lugs, band with 5-minute graduated notches, case back with embossed gold logo, sapphire crystal. White with applied steel Roman numerals and baton indexes, outer minute/seconds track, subsidiary dials for the day of the week and the date, aperture for the phases of the moon. Steel baton hands. Cal. 888/1, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 52 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 4 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-10
