Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 07, 2015

LOT 101

HAUTLENCE HLS 04 TITANIUM AND PVD COATED TITANIUM Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HLs 04", "Three Dimensional", No. HLs 04-03/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2009. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water- resistant, titanium and PVD coated titanium wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds, 40 hour power reserve and a titanium Hautlence deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee card (blank) and instruction booklet.

Three-body, curved, matte and polished, built to the 16:9 ratio of a television screen, stepped band, inclined bezel with four special screws, downturned lugs, transparent back with four special screws, curved sapphire crystals. Bi color, silver and black, 3-dimensional, applied polished steel 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 steel levers for the retrograde minutes, brushed steel mask. Luminous steel 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, self compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber.