Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 22, 2014

LOT 182

BOVET REF. A800.0 SPECIAL EDITION ENAMEL AND YELLOW GOLD Bovet, Swiss, "New York", Special edition No. 2 / 12, case No. 002328, Ref. A800.0, made in a limited edition of 12 pieces in 1998. Very fine and unique, self-winding 18K yellow wristwatch, with leather fitted box certificate of origin instruction booklet and hang tag.

Two-body, polished, round bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back engraved with "New York" and bears both watch and reference numbers, sapphire crystal. 18K gold in polychrome "cloisonne" enamel with applied gold indexes, showing the bay of New York with its skyline and the famous Statue of Liberty. skeletonized yellow gold dauphine hands. Cal. 11BA01, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating balance spring. Bridges angled by hand, bridge-and-clog screws in blue steel with angled and polished edges. Skeletonized, polished 22K gold rotor.