Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 238

Gerald Genta Steel Retro Sport Gérald Genta, ?Retro Sport?, case No. 110422, Ref. RSP.L.10. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, jump-hour, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with retrograde minutes and a black rubber strap with a stainless steel Gérald Genta buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws, reeded band, rounded bezel, 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 white 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. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.