Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 399

Glashutte Pink Gold Flying Tourbillon A. Helwig Glashütte Original, ?Flying Tourbillon, Alfred Helwig - 1845?, No. 06/25, movement No. 06, Ref. 41.01.02.02.06. Made in a limited edition of 25 pieces, sold on March 21st, 1997. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon and an 18K pink gold Glashutte Original buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty and booklet.

CHF 30,000 - 50,000

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

Sold: CHF 50,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inverted reeded bezel, straight lugs, transparent back with 5 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color pink and silver with wave pattern, small meantime dial in the lower half with painted black Arabic numerals, outer minute track, the upper half with aperture for the flying tourbillon, seconds track at the edge with blued steel pointer fixed to the tourbillon cage. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 41, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 2 diamond and 16 ruby jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, lateral lever escapement with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, polished steel cage with three equidistant serpentine arms, monometallic balance with gold temperature adjustment screws adjusted in 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone. Dial, movement and case signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 10 mm. The Property of a German Collector


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

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

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Flying Tourbillon As opposed to regular tourbillon regulators in which the carriage is fitted in a plate and secured by a bridge, in flying tourbillons, the lower bearing of the carriage is fitted in the plate in the regular way, the upper bearing is fitted beneath the carriage, and the carriage is built around a free (flying) arbor. On the top of the carriage, there are neither pivot nor bridge.