The Collection of a European Nobleman

Geneva, May 11, 2008

LOT 221

Ariadne Christian Van Der Klaauw, Joure, ?Ariadne?, No. 013. Made circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch, round button chronograph, registers, triple calendar, moon phases, 24 hour indication and an 18K pink gold buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, stepped bezel, curved lugs with screw-bars, transparent case back with 7 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché two-tone silver with painted Breguet numerals indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 24 hour indication, 30 minute and 12 hour register, apertures for the month and the day at 12, aperture for the moon phases at 6, outer minute/seconds track, outermost date scale. Blued Breguet hands, red arrow hand for the date. M. Cal. 7751, gilt, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism, gilted engraved rotor with clous de Paris decoration. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.