Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 142

Wandering Jump Hour Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese (NHC), "Wandering Jump Hour and Date", No. AN 0559. Made circa 2006. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, center-seconds, stainless steel wristwatch with wandering jump-hours, date and a stainless steel NHC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a blank certificate. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, curved band, stepped and screwed lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals. D. Frosted silver with white minute ring on the reverse of the crystal, revolving apertures for the jumping hours in the center and the rotating date aperture in the outer reserve.M. Cal based ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.