Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 308

GERALD GENTA TOURBILLON NO. 27 YELLOW GOLD Gérald Genta, Genève, No. 27, case No. 51006, Ref. G 4009.4. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold skeletonized wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar, moon phases and a Gérald Genta leather strap decorated with 4 octagonal gold bars and an 18K yellow gold double deployant clasp.

Two-body, octagonal, stepped bezel, octagonal winding crown, setting pushers on the band, transparent case back secured by 8 screws, hooded lugs with gold screwed bars repeating the bracelet decoration, sapphire crystals. Transparent with tritium-coated dot indexes, subsidiary ring dials for the day of the week, of the month, the months, apertures for the moon phases on a lapis-lazuli background, and the leap years. Luminous yellow gold épée hands. Cal. 11''', engraved gilt brass, 44 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, Gérald Genta polished steel bridge, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, engraved and skeletonized gold rotor bearing the initials "GG".