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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 409

Unique Piece, Minute-Repeating & Perpetual Calendar Andersen, Geneve, the movement by Henry Capt, Genève, No. 36363. Made as a unique piece in 1990. Very fine and unique, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, retrograde date, moon phases and age of the moon, an 18K yellow gold buckle, and a setting pin integrated into the strap.

CHF 50,000 - 70,000

USD 43,000 - 60,000 / EUR 35,000 - 50,000

Sold: CHF 54,000

C. Two-body, the bezel and lugs cast with a repeated pattern, transparent back, the border decorated to match the bezel, sapphire crystals, setting pin in the strap. D. Engine-turned gold with matte silvered chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, retrograde scale for the date, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and the months, apertures for the 4-year cycle and moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge. Blued steel baton hands. M. 12???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial signed Andersen, Geneve. Movement signed Henry Capt, Genève. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

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Svend Andersen Born in 1942 in Denmark, Andersen is called the "Watchmaker of the Impossible". With a diploma from the Danish Watchmaking School, part of the Royal Technological Institute of Copenhagen, in 1963 he traveled to Switzerland to learn how the best watches were produced. After working for Gübelin for several years, in 1969 he joined Patek Philippe's "Atelier of Complications" under the direction of the famous Max Berney, who had over 45 years of experience with the company.
In 1979 Andersen set up his own workshop, and since then has created high quality, unusual, and complicated timepieces. In 1984, together with Vincent Calabrese, he founded the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (Horological Academy of Independant Creators), an institution uniting more than 20 of the most ingenious independent watchmakers. The AHCI displays every year at the Basel Fair and its members are often the creative force behind the exceptional creations of the famous watch and clock manufacturers.