Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 37

Gérald Genta, Genève, "Tourbillon,? No. 008, Ref. 4008.4. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wrist-watch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and a sharkskin strap decorated with 4 hexagonal 18K yellow gold bars and 18K yellow gold Gérald Genta deployant clasp .

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, cylindrical lugs,transparent case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Whitewith painted radial Roman numerals, aperture for the tourbillonregulator under a hand-engraved gold bridge, carrying the redseconds hand. Yellow gold ?épée? hands. M. Cal. 14???, stampedwith the Geneva Quality Hallmark, skeletonized and hand-engraved,gilt, 29 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minutetourbillon regulator with A-shaped steel frame under apolished ?GG? steel bridge, monometallic balance adjusted to 5positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring, skeletonizedand hand-engraved rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm. Thickness: 10 mm.