54,000 CHF
Unique Piece, Minute-Repeating & Perpetual Calendar Andersen, Geneve, the movement by Henry Capt, Genève, No. 36363. Made as a unique piece in 1990. Very fine and unique, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, retrograde date, moon phases and age of the moon, an 18K yellow gold buckle, and a setting pin integrated into the strap. Two-body, the bezel and lugs cast with a repeated pattern, transparent back, the border decorated to match the bezel, sapphire crystals, setting pin in the strap. Engine-turned gold with matte silvered chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, retrograde scale for the date, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and the months, apertures for the 4-year cycle and moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge. Blued steel baton hands. 12’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial signed Andersen, Geneve. Movement signed Henry Capt, Genève. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Svend Andersen Born in 1942 in Denmark, Andersen is called the "Watchmaker of the Impossible". With a diploma from the Danish Watchmaking School, part of the Royal Technological Institute of Copenhagen, in 1963 he traveled to Switzerland to learn how the best watches were produced. After working for Gübelin for
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
