$53,100
“Minute-Repeating Perpetual Calendar” Gérald Genta, Genève, “Minute-Repeating Perpetual Calendar, No. 3, movement No. 13000, case No. 44372, Ref G3019.4. Made for Asprey in London in 1989. Very fine, unusual and rare, octagonal, minute-repeating, astronomic, selfwinding, platinum and diamond gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases and skeletonized dial. Property of an European Gentleman Two-body, solid, polished, transparent and screwed-down case back, stepped bezel set with 24 baguette-shaped diamonds, "Vendôme" type lugs, sapphire crystals. Transparent, subsidiary silver dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, leap year and in blue with aperture for the moon phases. White gold "baton" hands. Cal. 192, hand engraved, 40 jewels, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating oval pushpiece on the band, skeletonized rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes Gérald Genta was born in 1931 to an Italian father and a Swiss mother. From a very young age, he showed a real talent for drawing and painting. From the age of 7 he began to paint landscapes of Switzerland, spending hours in the countryside to satisfy his thirst for the beauty of nature. Between the ages of 15 and 20, he never stopped painting, and was frequently world. Matching technique with beauty, he produced precious perpetual calendars, minuterepeaters
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07
