Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 262

Heart Beat Day Date Frederique Constant, Genève, ?Heart Beat Day Date?, No. 15, Ref. FC-610. Made in a limited edition of 99 examples in 2003. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, center seconds, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with day and date indications, visible escapement and an 18K yellow gold Frederique Constant buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, curved bezel and band, straight curved lugs, transparent back with eight screws, sapphire crystals. D. Silvered, inner guilloche decoration, graduated radial painted black Arabic numerals, outer fifth of a second track with red painted 25-second numerals, subsidiary dial for date and days of the week, aperture to view the escapement. Black spade hands. M. Cal based on ETA 2892A2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11 mm.