The Collection of a European Nobleman

Geneva, May 11, 2008

LOT 145

Jumping Hours and Retrograde Minutes Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HL", No. HL04 - 05/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2006. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds, semi-skeletonized movement and an 18K white gold Hautlence buckle. Accompanied by the instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

EUR 13,000 - 19,000 / USD 20,000 - 30,000

Sold: CHF 31,200

C. Two-body, built to the 16:9 ratio of a television screen, polished, flat band, straight downturned lugs, transparent back with four special screws, sapphire crystals. D. Frosted silver, 3-dimensional, partially skeletonized to view the movement, polished white gold baton quarter-hour indexes and brushed minute sector sandwiched between the crystal and a further sapphire crystal plate, offset hour chapter ring with luminous Arabic numerals covered by a sapphire crystal disc with line decoration obscuring the hour numerals and with aperture for the current hour, subsidiary dial for the dragging seconds, blued steel skeleton levers for the retrograde minutes. Luminous blued steel skeleton baton minute hand. M. Peseux 7001, rectangular, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement with 21,600 beats per hour, free-sprung monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 44 x 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Hautlence The Hautlence brand was launched in 2004, the name is an anagram of the Swiss town Neuchatel, the home town of the company's three founders: Renaud De Retz, Guillaume Tetu and François Quentin. The Hautlence has a digit-revealing and obscuring jump-hour disc and retrograde minutes which simutaneously "jump" at the hour. The Hautlence is made in a limited edition of six styles, with 88 models of each.