Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 325

Claude Meylan, Vallée de Joux. Made in the 1990s. Fine, astronomic, center-seconds, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with triple date and moon phases. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezels, reeded band, sapphire crystals. D. Mother-of-pearl with applied pink gold Roman numerals and indexes, concentric date graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Black ?feuille? hands. M. Cal. Valjoux 90, copper-colored, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.