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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 392

Beauty-Fuel Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese (NHC), "Beauty-Fuel", No. BF 0855, Ref. BFS.159. Made circa 2006. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant , stainless steel wristwatch with second time zone, day and date indications, center-seconds, power-reserve and a stainless steel NHC deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, curved band, stepped and screwed lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals. D. Brown with clous de Paris decoration, applied tapered steel indexes, outer minute and seconds divisions with Arabic five-minute/second numerals on an inclined reserve, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and second time zone, powerreserve sector, date aperture at 12. Steel skeleton hands. M. Cal. Based ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes and oeil-deperdrix 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.