Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 53

CHRISTIAN VAN DER KLAAUW PLANETARIUM PINK GOLD Christiaan Van Der Klaauw, Netherlands, "Planetarium," No. 42. Made in 2002. Very fine and unusual, center seconds, self-winding, water resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with indication for the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the day of the month, the month and an 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, blank Certificate of Authenticity, push pin and instruction manuals and a service invoice for overhaul dated 2011.

Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, the months and the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. Glashütte Original GUB 39, modified by van der Klaauw, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment.