Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 55

MANUFACTURE CONTEMPORAINE DU TEMPS SEQUENTIAL ONE PINK GOLD Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps, "Sequential One", Ref. SQ 45 S1 PG, No. 7/99. Made in a limited edition of 99 pieces, made circa 2009. Very fine, rare and unusual, 18K pink gold wristwatch with jumping hours and an 18K pink gold MCT deployant buckle.

HKD 190,000 - 350,000

USD 24,000 - 45,000 / CHF 24,000 - 45,000

Sold: HKD 231,250

Four-part, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back witHEIGHT screws, case band with a strip of sapphire crystal, straight and angled lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Transparent, black Arabic numerals on revolving prisms in four sectors for the hours, opaque sapphire rotating ring with baton and Arabic numerals for the minutes. Black 18K gold index hand. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 81 jewels, Straumann balance with self-compensating double hairspring.


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Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

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Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 45 mm. THICKNESS 15 mm. MANUFACTURE CONTEMPORAINE DU TEMPS (MCT) was founded in 2006 and in 2007 began development on their first original wristwatch. The MCT "Sequential One" has a unique jumping hour mechanism which features a ¾ circle of opaque sapphire crystal with painted minutes that swings at the change of every hour. In the opening the wearer views the painted black oversized Arabic numerals on revolving prisms. Underneath the ring the wearer can view the prisms rotate and change the hour.