Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 39

Arena BiRetro Gérald Genta, ?Arena BiRetro?, case No. 119528, Ref. BSP.Y.80. Made circa 2006. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, jump hour titanium wristwatch with retrograde minutes and retrograde date with a stainless steel Gérald Genta double deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, rounded bezel, straight lugs with screwed bars, transparent case back with 8 screws, protected screwed down winding crown edged with dots, sapphire crystals, corrector on the band. D. Bi-color, black and orange with large luminous white Arabic numerals for the retrograde minutes sector, at 12, aperture for the jump-hour, at the bottom sector for the retrograde date, outer minute track with every five minute Arabic numerals. Luminous white skeleton hand. M. Cal. GG7723, rhodium plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 13 mm.