Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Monaco, Jul 21, 2021
LOT 130
Exception
Oversize, minute-repeater, split-seconds chronograph, minute counter, sapphire-crystal dial, engraved movement;
“Exception”; unique creation; 18K pink gold
Oversize, minute-repeater, split-seconds chronograph, minute counter, sapphire-crystal dial, engraved movement;
“Exception”; unique creation; 18K pink gold
EUR 80,000 - 160,000
USD 95,000 - 190,000 / HKD 740,000 - 1,480,000
18K pink gold, manual-winding, round-shaped, oversized gentleman’s wristwatch, sapphire-crystal snap-on case-back, sapphire-crystal dial with subsidiary seconds at 6 and four horological complications:
• Minute-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by the slide at 9 o’clock)
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the winding-crown at 3 o’clock)
• Split-seconds (activated by the round push-piece located on the case-band at 2 o’clock)
• Dragging 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
18’’’, rhodium-plated, partly hand-engraved plates and bridges, going barrel, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw, adjusted.
• Minute-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by the slide at 9 o’clock)
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the winding-crown at 3 o’clock)
• Split-seconds (activated by the round push-piece located on the case-band at 2 o’clock)
• Dragging 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
18’’’, rhodium-plated, partly hand-engraved plates and bridges, going barrel, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw, adjusted.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 1 |
As new |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
Brand Exception, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Model unique creation
Year circa 2012-2014
Movement No. No. 4 888 (based on Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus, Vallée de Joux, ebauche, from 1893, entirely restored, modernised and decorated by Kari Voutilainen, Môtiers, Val-de-Travers)
Case No. unnumbered (by Jean-Pierre Hagmann, Geneva) / weight 52.6 gr.
Bracelet black crocodile leather strap
Buckle 18K yellow gold double folding deployant clasp
Diameter 46 mm
Caliber 18’’’, lever escapement, adjusted
Signature case and movement
Accessories contemporary original winding fitted box and outer box
Notes
Exception, La Chaux-de-Fonds
The Exception house was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the 1980’s and has produced a number of series of wristwatches with horological complications, each in series of ten pieces (based on Jaeger-LeCoultre, Valjoux, Arola, etc. ebauches).
It is also responsible for exceptional pocket watches and wristwatches, unique or produced in series of three pieces, “Grande Complication” or “triple complication”, based on movements from Audemars Piguet, LeCoultre, Dubois-Dépraz or other manufactures in the Vallée de Joux).
The present watch is a unique creation based on an old Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux), movement with horological complications, which has been entirely restored, modernised and decorated by Kari Voutilainen, a famous watchmaker of Finnish origin based in Môtiers (Val-de-Travers), before being cased by Jean-Pierre Hagmann, the legendary Genevan master case-maker who made many cases for Patek Philippe.
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*a 20% import VAT is due on the hammer price with buyer's premium, plus 150€ for termination of temporary export, at buyer's expense, only if it is delivered within the EU