Thematic Auction in Geneva:The Evolut...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 138

Unique and MostComplicated Wristwatch in the World Gérald Genta, Geneva, "Grande Sonnerie",No. 1, Ref. G0025.7. Made in 1994, part of a series of only four examples: one in yellow gold, one in pink gold (this lot), one in white gold and one in platinum.Exceptionally fine and equally important, self-winding double-train, water-resistant gentleman's pink gold wristwatch with Westminster chime, Grande et Petite Sonnerie and silent display, four gongs and four hammers, minute-repeating, perpetual calendar, leap year indication, a second 24-hour time zone, 48-hour power reserve indicator for the going and striking trains, with one-minute tourbillon regulator in fully engraved movement, and a pink gold Gérald Genta deployant clasp.

C. two-body, truncated cone-shaped, stepped and decorated in a wave pattern, octagonal, glazed back with sapphire crystal secured by bolts, "Vendôme" lugs with pink gold screwed bars, Genta winding-crown at 3, Grande et Petite Sonnerie at 7, repeater at 9, silent/striking at 11, pushbuttons on the band for adjusting the retrograde calendar and 24-hour indications. D. gold, with four subsidiary mother-of-pearl dials, tritium dot indexes, four auxiliary sectors in Arabic writing for silence-chimet 10, going-train up-and-down indication at 2, 48-hour power-reserve indication at 4, Grande et Petite Sonnerie indicator at 8, second 24-hour time zone under the 12. Pink gold tritium-coated "bâton" hands, red hand for the seconds. M. Cal. 31.5 mm. (14'''), engraved with grape motifs and gilded, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, 57 jewels, three-arm polished steel tourbillon carriage, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance with screws, self-compensating flat balance spring, two-irectional rotor, winding-going train in one direction and striking-train in the other, tandem winding.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 39 mm., thickness 15 mm.