Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps

Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps, Sequential One Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps, “Sequential One”, Ref. SQ 45 S1 PG, No. 3. Made in a limited edition of 99 and sold in January 2009. Very fine, rare and unusual, 18K pink gold wristwatch with jumping hours and an 18K pink gold MCT deployant buckle. Accompanied by an MCT wooden box, and guarantee. Four-part, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with eight screws, case band with a strip of sapphire crystal, straight and angled lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Transparent, black Arabic numerals on revolving prisms in four sectors for the hours, opaque sapphire rotating ring with baton and Arabic numerals for the minutes. Black 18K gold index hand. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 81 jewels, Straumann balance with self-compensating double hairspring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Notes Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps (MCT) was founded in 2006 and in 2007 began development on their first original wristwatch. The MCT “Sequential One” has a unique jumping hour mechanism which features a ¾ circle of opaque sapphire crystal with painted minutes that swings at the change of every hour. In the opening the wearer views the painted black oversized Arabic numerals on revolving prisms. Underneath the ring the wearer can view the prisms rotate and change the hour.