Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Monaco, Jan 19, 2023

LOT 11*

BREITLING FOR ROLLS-ROYCE
8-DAY GOING DESK-CLOCK; “SPIRIT OF ECSTASY”; SILVER

EUR 3,100 - 5,100

USD 3,300 - 5,500 / HKD 25,400 - 42,300 / CHF 3,000 - 5,000

Sold: EUR 3,640

Silver (0.800), keyless-winding, 8-day going, desk-clock in the shape of a Rolls-Royce car grill, with, on the top, the “Spirit of Ecstasy” (the mascot of the car brand), silver colour dial with applied pink gold indexes.

This Lot is submitted to commissions and taxes :
If the lot is delivered within the EU:
a 20% import VAT is due on the hammer price with buyer’s premium, plus 120€ for termination of temporary export, at buyer’s expense.
If the lot is delivered outside EU:
120€ for termination of temporary export is due,at buyer’s expense
Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Breitling, Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura)

Model made for Rolls-Royce, England

Year circa 1950

Movement No. unnumbered

Case No. unnumbered

Material silver (0.800) (by “ABG”)

Caliber 22’’’, 8-day going, lever escapement

Dimensions 85.6 x 66 mm.

Weight 248.4 gr. (approx.)

Signature dial, case and movement

Accessories original fitted box

Notes

Spirit of Ecstasy

This statuette is the mascot of the Rolls-Royce car brand. It was created in 1911, at the request of Claude Goodman Johnson (1864-1926), the brand’s President and Director, by the English sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes (1875-1950) to embellish the brand’s radiator caps. The statuette was to inspire “the spirit of the Rolls-Royce, precisely: speed and silence, absence of vibration, great power mysteriously coupled with a beautiful living organism of superb grace...”.