Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 283

Claude Meylan minute repeater Claude Meylan, CM, Vallee De Joux, Swiss. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box.

CHF 45,000 - 60,000

USD 42,000 - 55,000 / EUR 30,000 - 40,000

Sold: CHF 51,600

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, snap-on transparent case back, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Off-white with painted large black Arabic numerals, minute track, subsidiary dial for the seconds at 9. Pink gold Breguet hands. M. 37 mm, fully engraved, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator, repeating on two gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial singed, case hallmarked. Diam 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 1

As new

Movement: 1

As new

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

To the best of our knowledge, fewer than four such pieces were produced.