238,000 CHF
Unique and Ultra-Complicated Wristwatch Gérald Genta, Geneva, "Grande Sonnerie", No. 1, Ref. G0025.7. Made in 1994, part of a series of only four examples: one in yellow gold (this lot), one in pink gold, one in white gold and one in platinum. Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's yellow gold wristwatch with Westminster chime, Grande et Petite Sonnerie and silent display, four gongs and four hammers, minute-repeating, perpetual calendar, leap year indication, a second 24-hour time zone, 48-hour power reserve indicator for the going and striking trains, with one-minute tourbillon regulator in fully engraved movement, and a yellow gold Gérald Genta deployant clasp. Two-body, truncated cone-shaped, stepped octagonal, glazed back with sapphire crystal secured by bolts, "Vendôme" lugs with pink gold screwed bars, Genta winding-crown at 3, Grande et Petite Sonnerie at 7, repeater at 9, silent/striking at 11, pushbuttons on the band for adjusting the retrograde calendar and 24-hour indications. Mother-of-pearl dials, tritium dot indexes, four subsidiary sectors in Arabic for silence-chimes at 10, going-train up-and-down indication at 2, 48- hour power-reserve indication at 4, Grande et Petite Sonnerie indicator at 8, four subsidiary dials, second 24-hour time zone under at 12, month with leap year at 3, date at 6 and day at 9. Luminous yellow gold "sword" hands, gold and red hand for the subsidiary indication.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
