Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015
LOT 212
HAUTLENCE HL05 WHITE GOLD Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HL", No. HL05 - 75/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2008. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds, semi- skeletonized movement and an 18K white gold Hautlence buckle. Accompanied by the instruction booklet, warranty card, original fitted box and loupe.
HKD 70,000 - 100,000
USD 9,000 - 12,900 / CHF 8,500 - 12,100
Sold: HKD 81,250
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 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.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2-9 |
Very good Scratched |
Movement: 1 |
As new |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |