Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 219

Gerald Genta ? Titanium & Platinum Arena Perpetual Calendar GMT Gerald Genta, Geneve, ?Arena Perpetual Calendar GMT?, No. 66, Ref. AQG.Y.87. Made circa 2009. Very fine and unusual, two time zone, center-seconds, titanium and platinum, self-winding, water-resistant, wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap-year indication and a titanium Gerald Genta buckle. Accompanied by a fitted winding box, certificate, and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, brushed, curved platinum bezel, titanium body with coin-edge band, straight lugs, Genta beaded crown, transparent back with 8 pentagonal screws, button at 10 for advancing the second time zone, correctors in the band, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Red, black and silver, net-effect with applied polished Arabic numerals, outer minutes and seconds divisions on an inclined ring, luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the second time zone with 24-hour numerals, the date concentric with leap-year indication, jump days of the week and months discs. White skeleton sword hands, red center-seconds hand. M. Cal. GG7044, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm.