Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 246

GERALD GENTA YELLOW GOLD MINUTE REPEATER TOURBILLON & PERPETUAL CALENDAR SQUELETTE NO. 10 Gérald Genta, Genève, No. 10, movement No. 20, case No. 48776, Ref. G 4010.4. Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine and important, highly complicated, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, minute- repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Gerald Genta double deployant clasp.

Two-body, octagonal, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, hexagonal winding-crown, correctors and minute repeating button on the band, transparent case back with 8 screws, octagonal-section hooded vendome lugs with gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Transparent crystal with applied luminous round indexes, subsidiary matte silver ring dials for the date with seconds, the days of the week, the months with leap-year indication, lapis-lazuli aperture for the moon phases. Luminous yellow gold épée hands. Cal.25, 13''', hand-engraved yellow gilt, stamped with the seal of Geneva quality mark, 44 jewels, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, one-minute tourbillon carriage with polished steel bridge, self-compensating flat balance spring, engraved and skeletonized gold rotor bearing the initials "GG", repeating on gongs activated by depressing the button on the band.