Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 68

Christiaan Van Der Klaauw ?Planetarium no. 42? Christiaan Van Der Klaauw, Netherlands, ?Planetarium,? No. 42. Made in 2002. Very fine and unusual, center seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with indication for the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the day of the month, the month and an 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, Certificate of Authenticity and instruction manuals.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, the months and the heliocentric revolution of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. m. Cal. Glashütte Original GUB 39, modified by van der Klaauw, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.