Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 339

HAUTLENCE, HL01, YELLOW GOLD Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HL", No. HL01 - No. 17/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2006. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds, semi- skeletonized movement and an 18K yellow gold Hautlence buckle. Accompanied by the instruction booklet, blank warranty card and original fitted box.

Two-body, built to the 16:9 ratio of a television screen, polished, flat band, straight downturned lugs, transparent back with four special screws, sapphire crystals. Frosted silver, 3-dimensional, partially skeletonized to view the movement, polished white gold baton quarter- hour indexes and brushed minute sector sandwiched between the crystal and a further sapphire crystal plate, offset hour chapter ring with luminous Arabic numerals covered by a sapphire crystal disc with line decoration obscuring the hour numerals and with aperture for the current hour, subsidiary dial for the dragging seconds, blued steel skeleton levers for the retrograde minutes. Luminous blued steel skeleton baton minute hand. Peseux 7001, rectangular, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement with 21,600 beats per hour, free-sprung monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber.