$14,160
"Grande Seconde" Jaquet Droz, Genève, "Hommage Genève 1784" - "Grande Seconde", Numerus Clausus No. 3/8, Ref. J003033216. Made in a limited edition of only 8 examples in 2003. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with regulator-style rutilated dial with oversized seconds indication and an 18K white gold Jaquet Droz buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box and a certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded band and bezel, curved concave lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte silver off-center dial for the hours and minutes with painted radial Roman numerals, below a large subsidiary dial for the seconds with painted Arabic numerals, framed by a beveled white gold ring secured to a rutilated dial base plate with 3 blued steel screws. Blued steel "alpha" hands. Cal. 2663.4 (base FP 1153), rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring, twin barrels, 18K white gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Rutilated Quartz Rutile, a mineral with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, is a major ore of titanium. It often forms needle-like crystal inclusions inside quartz. This type of quartz is known as rutilated quartz and its inclusions look like small bars of imbedded gold. Rutilated quartz is found in Austr
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14
