Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 105

Three Dimensional Hautlence, Horlogerie Suisse, "HL", No. HLs 03-07/88. Made in a limited edition of 88 pieces, circa 2008. Very fine and very unusual, innovative, TV-shaped, water-resistant, 18K white gold and titanium wristwatch with 3-dimensional dial, simultaneous jumping hours and retrograde minutes, dragging seconds and a titanium and white gold Hautlence deployant clasp. Accompanied by the box and certificate. To be sold without reserve

HKD 70,000 - 110,000

USD 10,000 - 16,000 / EUR 7,000 - 11,000

Sold: HKD 114,000

C. Three-body, curved, matte and polished, built to the 16:9 ratio of a television screen, stepped band, inclined bezel with four special screws, down-turned lugs, transparent back with four special screws, curved sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone frosted and brushed silver, 3-dimensional, applied polished white gold baton and Arabic minute numerals on an inclined sector, inner luminous minute divisions, offset hour chapter ring with Arabic numerals, smoked crystal obscuring the hour numerals and with aperture for the current hour beneath a cyclops lens, subsidiary dial for the dragging seconds, visible brushed steel levers for the retrograde minutes, brushed steel mask. Luminous steel skeleton arrow minute hand. M. Peseux 7001, rectan-gular, gray brushed, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement with 21,600 beats per hour, free-sprung monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, crystal and movement signed. Dim. 46 x 41 mm. Thickness 13 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 1

As new
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

The Hautlence brand was launched in 2004, the name being an anagram of the city of 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.