Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 149

BOVET FLEURIER JUMPING HOUR WHITE GOLD DIAMONDS SAPPHIRE Bovet Fleurier S.A., Genève, "Fleurier Jumping Hour", case No. 007803, Ref. D 817. Made in the 2000's. Very fine and unusual, asymmetric, self-winding, water- resistant, 18K white gold, diamonds, and sapphire, jump hour wristwatch with an 18K white gold Bovet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and instruction manual.

Three-body, polished, rounded polished band and curved bezel, asymmetric Vendome-type lugs with screwed bars at 6 with sapphire ends, extended mobile geometrical-shaped pendant and winding crown at 12 set with sapphire and screwed bars at 12 with sapphire ends, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Black enamel with red and white geometric star design, aperture in the center for hours, 59 diamonds set on inner bezel with a sapphire at 12, black rotating disk with painted white radial Arabic numerals for the minutes. Cal. 11BA07, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 22K gold rotor.