Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 188

?Eclipse No. 7? Christiaan van der Klaauw, Netherlands, ?Eclipse?, No. 7. Made circa 2003. Very fine and unusual, astronomic, center-seconds, selfwinding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with indications for the solar and lunar eclipse, the sun and moon position, the day of the month, the month and an 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and setting instructions.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. "Guilloché" silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, the months and the solar and lunar eclipse indication, aperture for the indication for the sun and moon position for 7 world locations. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 2824-2, modified by van der Klaauw and hand-engraved by Jochen Benzinger, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, decorated 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.