Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 309

GERALD GENTA PERPETUAL CALENDAR SQUELETTE PLATINUM Gérald Genta, "Perpetual Calendar Squelette", case No. 55093, Ref. G 2539 4. Made circa 1990. Extremely fine, octagonal, skeletonized, self-winding, water- resistant, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum Gerald Genta buckle.

Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel with overhanging segments, "Vendôme" type lugs, pushers on the band for quick change of the date, transparent screw-down back, sapphire crystals. Skeletonized with luminous dot indexes on a crystal plate, subsidiary mother-of-pearl ring dials for the days of the month, of the week, and the months, lapis-lazuli aperture for the gold moon phases, leap year indication. Luminous white gold hands. Cal. 1112, skeletonized, hand-engraved, 35 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, sef-compensating flat balance-spring, platinum engraved rotor pierced with the initials: "GG".