Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 398

Glashütte Pink Gold Convertible Flying Tourbillon pocket/wristwatch Glashütte Original, Glashütte in Sachsen, "Julius Assmann - Tourbillon ", No. 6/25. Made in a limited edition of 25 examples, sold on December 18th, 2001. Extremely fine and rare, convertible, center seconds, 18K pink gold pocket/wristwatch with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator in the style of Alfred Helwig, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an 18K pink gold J. Assmann buckle. Accompanied by an 18K gold fancy link chain, setting pin, special spherical wooden fitted box and certificate.

CHF 30,000 - 50,000

USD 30,000 - 50,000 / EUR 23,000 - 40,000

Sold: CHF 52,500

C. Four-body, solid, polished, ribbed bezel, stepped concave lugs, hinged back cover over transparent cover to view the movement, sapphire crystals, detachable from the wristwatch case to be worn as a pocket watch. D. 18K white gold and mother-of-pear with pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary dias for the months, day and date, aperture for the moon phase, outer minute track, outermost 1/5 second divisions. Pink gold skeletonized cathedral hands. M. 12???, rhodium-plated, fausses coted decoration, 21 jewels including 2 diamond end-stones, lateral lever escapement, Alfred Helwig's one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage and 3 equidistant arms, monometallic balance adjusted in 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm. The Property of a German Collector


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

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

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

To celebrate the 175th anniversary of one of Germany?s most significant watchmakers, Glashütte Original introduced the ?Julius Assmann 3? tourbillon watch in 2002. Born in Stettin on Oct. 2, 1827, young Julius Assmann learned watchmaking and in 1850 traveled to Glashütte to perfect his craft. At the time, the industry in the small struggling town in Saxony?s Müglitz valley was just 5 years old. Assmann found employment with Ferdinand Adolph Lange, who had started the trade to improve the economical situation in the area. After 2 years he founded his own business, the ?Julius Assmann Deutsche Präzisions- Taschenuhren Fabrik?, buying supplies locally, while assembly and sales of key-wound pocket watches were done in his factory. As early as 1854, his company exhibited in the German Trade and Industry exposition, winning a prestigious gold medal. The Prussian government asked him to start a watch industry in Silesia and Brandenburg, but Assmann declined, preferring to jointly start the ?Deutsche Uhrmacherschule? (German School of Watchmaking) in Glashütte in 1877, becoming its board?s chairman in 1885, a great honor for the businessman and master of his craft.