$3,240
Beauty-Fuel Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese (NHC), "Beauty-Fuel," No. BF 0825, Ref. BFS.151. Made circa 2006. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with second time zone, day and date indications, center seconds, power-reserve and a stainless steel NHC deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, rounded band, stepped and screwed lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals. Bicolor black and silver with clous de Paris decoration, applied tapered steel indexes, outer minute and seconds divisions with Arabic five-minute/second markers on an inclined reserve, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and second time zone, power-reserve sector, date aperture at 12. Steel skeleton hands. Cal. based ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, faussescotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement,monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-12-11