Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 186

"Rétrograde" Daniel Roth, "Rétrograde", No. 17. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, double-ellipse-shaped, skeletonized, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman?s wristwatch with retrograde hours, 42-hour autonomy and an 18K white gold Daniel Roth buckle. Property of a South American Gentleman,

C. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with guilloché sector for the retrograde hours in painted Arabic numerals and ring dials for the minutes and seconds. Blued steel "flèche" hands. M. Cal. 3000, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micro-meter regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 35 x 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.