34,500 CHF
Svend Andersen, Genève, Montre à Tact, designed by Walter Haselberger, Javea-Alicante, completed on November 14, 1999. Very fine and unique, self-winding, curved, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch à tact, with double time display, leather strap and 18K pink gold Andersen buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and certificate. "Empire", three body, curved back with screws, ribbed band, aperture between the lugs on the6 and wide aperture on the 12 showing the time, the numbers and indexes are hand engraved and filled with black paint, lapidated lugs, time setting by means of two push-pieces. engraved pink gold by Vaucher Gravure, representing a Geneva landscape, the Cathedral, the Lake symbolized by a watch dial and the Geneva Eagle. Above the hour aperture, the signature. mechanical with automatic winding,25 jewels.Signed on the dial.Diam. 45 mm. Notes Svend Andersen He is considered as the most inventive watchmaker in Geneva.After 9 years with Patek Philippe at their Ateliers de Complications he was already well-known among watch collectors because of his Bottle Clock made ten years before and for which he received the byname "watchmaker of the impossible". When he started as independent watchmaker with his own workshop in 1982, collectors came to him for research and mainly to have new cases made in original style for old and complicated pocket watch movements.The first watch he made in his own collection was the World Time Watch Communication, a series from which th
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-11-13
