Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 30

Steel and Diamond Retro Sport Gérald Genta, ?Retro Sport?, case No. 93294, Ref. G3694. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, jump-hour, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and diamond wristwatch with retrograde minutes and a black rubber strap with a stainless steel Gérald Genta double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws, reeded band, rounded bezel with 108 brilliant cut diamonds, curved lugs with screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone black, inner carbon-fiber insert, with applied luminous radial Arabic numerals, at the bottom, sector for the retrograde minutes, aperture for the jump hour at 12, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous blued steel épée hand. M. Cal. GA 4700/ ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm.