Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 42

Van Cleef & Arpels - Steel & Gold - Automatic - Day & Date Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris, La Collection, No. 107, movement No. 2530981, case No. 45262, Ref. 418-003. Made in the 1990's. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with day and date, moon phases and a gold-plated Van Cleef & Arpels buckle.

C. Two-body, polished, Vendome-type lugs, case back with embossed gold logo, sapphire crystal. D. Ivory color with applied yellow gold Roman numerals and baton indexes, outer minute/ seconds track, subsidiary dials for the day of the week and the date, aperture for the phases of the moon. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 888/1, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 4 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.