Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 468

NHC BEAUTY-FUEL Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese (NHC), "Beauty-Fuel", No. BF 0858, Ref. BFS.159. Made circa 2006. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with second time zone, day and date indications, center-seconds, power-reserve. Accompanied by a blank certificate, booklet and original fitted box.

Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, curved band, stepped and screwed lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals. Brown with clous de Paris decoration, applied tapered steel indexes, outer minute and seconds divisions with Arabic five-minute/second numerals on an inclined reserve, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and second time zone, power reserve sector, date aperture at 12. Steel skeleton hands. Cal. Based ETA 2892, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism.