Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 15, 2005

LOT 273

"Panomatic Flying Tourbillon" Glashütte in Sachsen, Original, "Panomatic Tourbillon", No. 19/50. Made in a limited edition of 50. Very fine and very rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with Alfred Helwig's one minute flying tourbillon, panorama date and Glashütte platinum buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 65,000 - 85,000

EUR 50,000 - 65,000

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, curved lugs, date setting button at 10, transparent back with engraved rim and fivescrews, sapphire crystals. D. White gold, engine turned, off-center chapter ring with baton hour and minute markers, subsidiary secondspointer mounted directly on the visible flying tourbillon, panorama date. Blued steel "alpha" hands. M. Caliber 93, rhodium plated,"fausses cotes" decoration, 46 jewels and two diamonds, Helwig's one minute flying tourbillon with polished steel cage, lateral leverescapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, off-center rotor with 21K gold rim. Dial, case and move-mentsigned. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.


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Case: 3 - 6
Movement: 1

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Dial: 1 - 01

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The Panomatic Tourbillon combines one of the most difficult complications of classical watchmaking with the panorama date. The traditional flying tourbillon as designed by Alfred Helwig has for the first time been combined with automatic winding. Flying Tourbillon. As opposed to regular tourbillon regulators in which the carriage is fitted in a plate and secured by a bridge, in flying tourbillons, the lower bearing of the carriage is fitted in the plate in the regular way, the upper bearing is fitted beneath the carriage, and the carriage is built around a free (flying) arbor. On the top of the carriage, there are neither pivot nor bridge.