Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 26, 2012

LOT 408

VIANNEY HALTER WHITE GOLD PERPETUAL CALENDAR Vianney Halter, "Time Machine Perpetual Antiqua". No.15W.41.A. Made circa 2005. Very fine, rare and highly unusual, self-winding, water-resistant 18K white and yellow gold wristwatch with sub-divided instantaneous perpetual calendar and 18k white gold Vianney Halter buckle. Accompanied by a wooden automatic Vianney Halter winding box, blank certificate with instructions and setting pin.

HKD 312,000 - 468,000

USD 40,000 - 60,000 / EUR 32,000 - 47,000

Sold: HKD 400,000

C. Comprised of over 130 parts, solid, polished and brushed, rounded central lugs, 4 different-sized and yellow gold rivet-decorated portholes to view the different indications, rivet decorated winding-crown, anti-refl ective sapphire crystals. D. 4 individual, two-tone, brushed 18K pink gold dials with engraved and enameled radial Arabic numerals for the hours, the days of the week, the months, the leap years and the date. Blued steel "alpha" hands. M. Cal. VH 198, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 43 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance-spring, patented sapphire crystal ?mystery? rotor with 18K white gold segment. Dial and movement signed. Width 43 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 1*

As new

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

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

French watchmaker Vianney Halter has been fascinated by watches and clocks from childhood. He attended watchmaking school in Paris at age 13 and at 17 he began specializing in horological restoration work. After moving to Switzerland, he established his own company ?Janvier SA? in 1994, named after famous French clockmaker Antide Janvier. Today Halter, a member of the AHCI (Académie horlogère des créateurs indépendants? or ?Academy of Independent Watch Creators?), lives in the town of Ste.-Croix in Switzerland, where his fi rm produces a small and exclusive line of watches like the ?Antiqua? (introduced in 1999), the ?Contemporaine?, the ?Trio? and the ?Classic?. These unusually designed wristwatches or perhaps more accurately, ?timesculptures?, defy all conventions, yet Halter?s vision of presenting time follows the highest standards of traditional watchmaking. In 2003 Vianney Halter collaborated with the wellknown New York jewelry house Harry Winston, joining forces to build the inimitable ?Opus 3? wristwatch with its 6 portholes and 10 independently rotating discs that display time.