Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 386

"Tourbillon - Réserve de Marche No. 2? Gérald Genta, Genève, "Tourbillon - Réserve de Marche", No. 2, Ref. 4028.7. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and important, self-winding, water-resistant, octagonal, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 64-hour power reserve, date and power reserve indication. Accompanied by a sharkskin strap decorated with six hexagonal gold bars and white gold deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent back with screws, numbered and signed on the band, rounded bezel, central hexagonal lugs repeating the strap bar decoration, flat sapphire crystals. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds over the tourbillon aperture, under the 12, sector for the up-and-down indication, outer graduation for the days of the month, aperture for the visible tourbillon and cage. Luminous gold "Epée" hands. M. Cal. 12000, engraved gilt brass, 27 jewels, one-minute tourbillon regulator, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.