Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 35

Gérald Genta Chronograph Day-Date Gérald Genta, Genève, No. 46706, Ref. G 3188.7. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, day and date, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, Vendôme-type lugs, back with 8 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied luminous yellow gold-rimmed dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500 UPH. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. based on Valjoux 7750, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.