Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 3

"Big Bang" Hublot, Genève, "Big Bang", Chronograph, Automatic, No. 21. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples to commemorate the 20th anniversary of East Coast Jewelery. Very fine and rare, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel, titanium, ceramic and kevlar, gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, carbon fiber dial, and a special integrated rubber strap with stainless steel Hublot deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and an additional black strap with necessary tools.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, hooded lugs, ceramic bezel fixed by 6 titanium nuts, yellow kevlar sides, sapphire crystals. D. Carbon fiber with applied steel Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, aperture for the date. White luminous "bâton" hands. M. Cal. HUB 44, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, tungsten rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.