Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 414

De Witt, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel", No. 09/50, Ref 8002.70. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in the 2000s. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K white gold, rubber and titanium wristwatch with bi-retrograde perpetual calendar, leap years indication, moon phases and titanium Dewitt deployant clasp.

HKD 150,000 - 200,000

USD 20,000 - 26,000 / EUR 15,000 - 20,000

Sold: HKD 187,500

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, notched white gold bezel with titanium and rubber rims, straight lugs with screwed bars, band with alternate titanium and matte black rubber "Imperial Column" decoration, transparent white gold back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Carbon-fiber with applied white gold radial Arabic and Roman numerals, dots indexes, minute division, inner guilloche yellow with silvered sectors for the retrograde days of the week and the retrograde date, subsidiary silver dial for the months and leap year indication at 12, aperture for the moon phase indication at 6. White gold skeletonized hands. M. Cal 10, stamped with the Geneva seal, ?Cotes de Genève? decoration, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, shock absorber, flat balance-spring, monometallic balance, swan-neck regulator, gold micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Jérôme de Witt Creator of the DeWitt Manufacture, is fascinated by the art of Haute Horlogerie, "wonderstruck by this art of the infinitely small that creates movement ? enchanted by these geniuses of invention who are forever pushing the limits of technology to better tame the passage of time ? fascinated by this slow and respectful labor of the watchmaker, who loves his creation, which, by dint of science and patience, becomes his brainchild, his legacy."