Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, May 10, 2020

LOT 403

Maitres du Temps - Chronograph, minute recorder, date, day, moon phases, AM-PM indication, tourbillon, silver dial; "The Ti Chapter One"; limited edition of 11 pieces, "One of 11"; titanium

Titanium, manual-winding, curvex, vertical tonneau-shaped, large gentleman's wristwatch, silver colour dial with subsidiary seconds at 6 and visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with six horological complications: • Chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the winding-crown at 3 o’clock) • 60-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock) • Instantaneous retrograde (fly-back) date of the month (half-circle graduation at 3 o’clock; corrector push-piece at 2 o’clock) • Day of the week (spelled out on the blue roller at 6 o’clock; corrector push-piece at 4 o’clock) • Patented precise phases of the moon (on the blue roller at 12 o’clock; corrector push-piece at 8 o’clock) • Retrograde (fly-back) diurnal (day-time) and nocturnal (night-time) hours with a 24-hour (AM-PM) scale (half-circle graduation at 9 o’clock; corrector push-piece at 10 o’clock). Case with four anti-reflective sapphire crystals, three on the front and three on the case-back. Made in collaboration with Daniel Roth, Roger Dubuis, Peter Speake-Marin and Steven Hotzman.