Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 281

ANDERSEN UNIQUE PERPETUAL CALENDAR MINUTE REPEATER 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.

C. 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. D. 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. M. 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.