Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 366

MB &F MB&F, Horological Time Machine No. 2, case A140009, Ref. No. 20. DRRT. Made in a limited edition of 125 pieces in 2010, sold on March 30, 2010. Extremely fine and innovative, oversized, self-winding and manual, water-resistant, 18K pink gold and titanium wristwatch, with instantaneous jumping hour, concentric retrograde minute and date and northern and southern hemisphere moonphase and an MB&F pink gold and stainless steel double-sprung deployant clasp. Accompanied by its original warranty and instruction booklet.

C. Two-body, massive, rectangular, brushed and polished, bezels attached to the case by 2 screws, concave lugs with screwed bars, transparent back with 4 screws, lockable crown system with 2 positions, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Ruthenium/silver, brushed, the left dial with concentric retrograde date and northern and southern hemisphere moon phase indicator, the right with instantaneous jumping hour and concentric retrograde minutes, painted Arabic numerals. Pink gold arrow hands with luminous tips. M. Girard-Perregaux based, 44 jewels, monometallic balance with 28,800 beats per hour, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K axe-shaped pink gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed, case numbered. Dim. 59 x 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.