Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 87

BOVET REF. C 805SPORTSTER CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Bovet Fleurier S.A., Genève, "Sportster," case No. 008256, Ref. C 805. Made circa 2008. Fine and unusual, asymmetric, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, pulsometer, large date and an 18K pink gold Bovet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and instruction manual.

Three-body, polished, rounded polished band, polished inclined bezel, asymmetric Vendome-type lugs with screwed bars at 6, extended mobile geometrical-shaped pendant and winding crown at 12, transparent case back with 6 screws, round chronograph buttons at 11 and 1, sapphire crystals. Black with printed pink gold Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track, tachometer and pulsometer scales, subsidiary sunk dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, double aperture for the date at 12. Pink gold skeletonized baton hour and minute hands and serpentine chronograph hand. Cal. 3839, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes, 28 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 22K gold rotor.