Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 216

"Tourbillon Double Face 8-Days" Daniel Roth, "Tourbillon Double Face 8-Days Power Reserve", No. 050, Ref. 197.X.60. Made circa 2000. Extremely fine and rare, double-ellipse shaped, 18K white gold gentleman's double-dialed wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 8-day power reserve indication, date, and an 18K white gold Daniel Roth buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case band with roll torus, hinged case back to view the date and 8-day power reserve aperture, sapphire crystals. D. Front: guilloché, 18K white gold, off-center plain silver ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals, aperture for the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the 3-arm seconds hand for the 3 concentric 20-second scales. Blued steel "flèche" hands. Back: guilloché 18K white gold with applied plain silver ring dial for the date and an aperture for the power reserve display. M. Cal. 197.X, full plate with aperture for the tourbillon regulator, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3-arm polished steel carriage, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 43 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of a West Coast Collector