Antiquorum’s Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, 16th November 2002 Auction Totaled 17,371,534
The top lots for the auction are as follows:
Breguet, No. 1348, sold to Messieurs Meyer et Tues for 2160 francs on 3 fructidor an 13 (Aug 21, 1805).Exceptionally fine and highly important large 20K gold watch with annual Gregorian calendar and additional gold index for the Julian calendar, signs of the Zodiac, special disengaging equation of time and days of the week. In original Breguet Morocco fitted box, with original gold Breguet key on short gold chain, accompanied by two Breguet certificates.
Sold for 1,213,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0
Patek Philippe Ref. Ref. 3974
Sold for 531,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 300,000 - 350,000
EUR 200,000 - 233,000
La Sainte Famille á l'oiseauSalomon Plairas a Blois, circa 1640.Extremely fine and equally rare large 20K gold and painted on enamel "fermée" type pre balance spring, single-hand pendant watch.
Sold for 443,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0
Unique and Most ComplicatedWristwatch in the WorldGérald Genta, Geneva, "Grande Sonnerie", No. 66749, Ref. G0025.7, No. 1. Made in 1994, part of a series of only eight examples, in yellow gold, pink gold, white gold and platinum (this lot).Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's platinum 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 polished articulated platinum Gérald Genta bracelet.
Sold for 388,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0
Breguet, 1804-5Extremely important 47-page daily journal in Abraham Louis Breguet's hand, recording the crucial points of his correspondence from 16 Prairial An 12, to 10 Pluviose.
Sold for 350,000.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0
Jean Lavaivre, Directeur Ecole Nationale d'Horlogerie, "Cours du Pendule et d'Échappement", illustrations by Jean Régère, circa 1890.Exceptionally rare, probably unique, unpublished handwritten manuscript of a treatise on escapements and complicated horological mechanisms with hand colored ink illustrations, no doubt destined for the 1897 Centennial Besançon Exhibition.
Sold for 344,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 22,000 - 30,000
EUR 15,000 - 20,000
Unique and MostComplicated Wristwatch in the World 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, one in pink gold (this lot), one in white gold and one in platinum.Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's pink 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 pink gold Gérald Genta deployant clasp.
Sold for 311,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0
Property of a European GentlemanGrande Complication WristwatchGérald Genta, Geneva, No. 1, Ref. GGM1, produced in a very few examples in 1996.Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's platinum wristwatch with Westminster chime, Grande et Petite Sonnerie and silent display, four gongs and four hammers, minute-repeating, 12-hour fly-back hand with revolving 60-minute indication, 48-hour power reserve indicator for the striking and the going trains, and one-minute tourbillon regulator in fully engraved movement, and a platinum Gérald Genta deployant clasp.
Sold for 311,500.00 CHF
Estimate CHF 0 - 0
EUR 0 - 0