96,000 HKD
Svend Andersen White Gold Secular perpetual calendar Svend Andersen, Geneve, No. 35. Made circa 2006. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18k white gold wristwatch with perpetual secular calendar and an 18k white gold Andersen buckle. Accompanied by the original Scatola Del Tempo for Andersen winding box, original Certificate of Origin and instruction document. Two-body, polished, curved and stepped bezel, flared lugs, transparent case back to view the perpetual calendar, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with engine-turned center, applied white gold Breguet numerals, outer minute track, large aperture for the date. The reverse with subsidiary dials for months combined with leap year indicator, century indicator and extra hand for precise year indicator. Blued steel baton hands. Modified ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman Notes Secular Perpetual Calendar Based on the Gregorian calendar introduced in 1582, it adopted the system based on a year of 365 days with a leap year of 366 days every four years. Pope Gregory XIII found this system to be inaccurate so corrected the calendar by 10 days and introduced a special secular leap year calendar. In this newly corrected system only years that were considered to be divisible b Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-25
