Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 189

?Planetarium No. 44? Christiaan van der Klaauw, Netherlands, ?Planetarium?, No. 44. Made circa 2003. Very fine and unusual, astronomic, center-seconds, selfwinding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with indication for the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the day of the month, the month and an 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

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 on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the date, the months and the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at 12. Blued steel ?Breguet " hands. M. Cal. Glashütte Original GUB 39, modified by van der Klaauw, rhodium-plated, fausses-côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.