Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 226

DANIEL ROTH WHITE GOLD PAPILLON CHRONOGRAPHE Daniel Roth, "Ellipso-curvex Chrono Papillon", Ref. 319.Z.60. No. 67. Made in the 2000s. Very fine and unusual, double ellipse-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with jump hours, retrograde minutes, oval button chronograph, registers and an 18K white gold Daniel Roth deployant clasp. Accompanied by the Certificate of Origin and instruction manual and fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolor textured rhodium plated and midnight blue, cotes de Geneve decoration, white Arabic numerals on a segment between 3 and 9 for the retrograde minutes, concentric with chronograph seconds ring, aperture for the jump hours at 12 flanked by the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Blued steel lozenge hands for the retrograde minutes. M. Cal. DR 2319, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 43 x 46 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm.