Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 323

Gold Pfeil, "Faces of Time", designed and created by Vianney Halter (Ste Croix, member of the AHCI, for Gold Pfeil Genève, circa 2000. ca 2000. Very fine and unusual, center-seconds, self-winding, jump hour, rectangular curved, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch in shape of a 1930s camera with moon phases and an 18K white gold large matching buckle featuring a new mechanism. Accompanied by a fitted box and instructions for use, and a 30-minute DVD.

C. two-body, sculpted from a solid block of 18K gold and palladium, case back with screws, on dial side, "guilloché" and polished representation of a 1930s camera, three apertures for the minutes and seconds, the jump hour and the moon phases with a special display, four sapphire crystals. D. off-white with blue painted indexes for the minutes and seconds, for the jump hour. Wide blued steel Gold Pfeil arrow for the minutes, red for the seconds, and blued steel triangle for the phases of the moon. M. rhodium-plated, 35 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial and case signed.Dim. 30 x 40 mm.