Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 15

Daniel Roth, "Rétrograde", No. 161. Produced in the 1990s.Very fine and rare, double-ellipse-shaped, water-resistant, 18K white and pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with retrogradehours, 42-hour autonomy and an 18K white gold Daniel Roth buckle.

C. two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, case band decorated with a pink gold roll torus, rounded bezel, straight lugs, sap-phirecrystals. D. "guilloché" silver with a plain pink gold sector for the hours in painted Arabic numerals, outer pink gold ring for theminute indexes, at 6, subsidiary pink gold ring dial for the seconds. Blued steel "flèche" hands. M. Cal. 3000, rhodium-plated, "faussescôtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet bal-ancespring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 35 x 38 mm.