Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 253

HAUTLENCE REF. HL04 WHITE GOLD Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, No. 20/88, Ref. HL04. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2006. 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 double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, instruction booklet, magnifying loupe and blank warranty card.

Two-body, polished, flat band, straight down-turned lugs, transparent case back with four special screws, sapphire crystals. Frosted silver, 3-dimensional, partially skeletonized to view the movement, brushed minute sector fitted 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 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. Cal. 7001, rectangular, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement with 21,600 beats per hour, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.