Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 22, 2014

LOT 66

HAUTLENCE HLS 06 GOLD Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HLs 06", "Three Dimensional", No. HLs 06-30/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2009. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water- resistant, 18K gold and 18K gray gold wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds, 40 hour power reserve and a 18K gold and titanium Hautlence deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee card (blank), instruction booklet, and extra strap.

HKD 128,000 - 171,000

USD 17,000 - 22,000 / CHF 15,000 - 20,000

Sold: HKD 162,500

Three-body, curved, matte and polished, built to the 16:9 ratio of a television screen, stepped band, inclined bezel with four special screws, down-turned lugs, transparent back with four special screws, curved sapphire crystals. Bi color, silver and black, 3-dimensional, applied polished gold baton and Arabic minute numerals on an inclined sector, inner luminous minute divisions, offset hour chapter ring with luminous Arabic numerals, smoked crystal obscuring the hour numerals and with aperture for the current hour beneath a cyclops lens, subsidiary dial for the dragging seconds, visible brushed gold levers for the retrograde minutes, brushed gold mask. Luminous gold skeleton arrow minute hand. Cal. HL, rectangular, gray brushed, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement with 21,600 beats per hour, free-sprung monometallic balance, selfc ompensating flat balance spring, shock absorber.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 1

As new
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

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Dial, crystal and movement signed. DIM. 46 x 41 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. The Hautlence brand was launched in 2004, the name being an anagram of the city of Neuchatel, the home town of the company?s three founders: Renaud De Retz, Guillaume Tetu and François Quentin. The Hautlence has a digit-revealing and obscuring jump hour disc and retrograde minutes which simutaneously ?jump? at the hour. The Hautlence is made in a limited edition of six styles, with 88 models of each.