Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 113

"Hommage, No. 1/1" Jaquet Droz, "Hommage Genève 1784 - Grande Seconde Paillonée", No. 1/1. Made as a unique piece in 2005. Very fine and unique, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with regulator-style dial with oversized seconds indication and an 18K white gold Jaquet Droz buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded band and bezel, curved concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Blue enamel decorated with gold paillons, off-center dial for the hours and minutes with painted radial Roman numerals, below a large subsidiary dial for the seconds with painted Arabic numerals, framed by a beveled white gold ring secured to a ?perlage?-decorated base with 3 blued steel screws. Blued steel "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 2663.4 (base FP 1153), rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shockabsorber self-compensating flat balance-spring, twin barrels, 18K white gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 12 mm.