Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 242

PIERRE KUNZ MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR RETROGRADE DAY DATE TOURBILLION WHITE GOLD Pierre Kunz, Genève, No. 05. Ref. PKA 1501 RMT QPR. Sold on July 30, 2008. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K brushed white gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar, retrograde day and date, moon phases and an 18K brushed white gold Pierre Kunz buckle.

Three-body, solid, brushed, inclined bezel, transparent case back, coin-edge band with inset calendar adjusters, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystals. Tricolor satiné silver and pink gilt with printed radial Roman numerals, aperture for the moon phases at 6, sectors for the retrograde date indicator at 2 and the day of the week at 10, ring for the months below 12 with four-year cycle. Blued steel épée hands. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, wolf 's tooth winding, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed.