Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 73

"Bulletin D'Observatoire" Roger Dubuis, horloger genevois, "Bulletin d'Observatoire", No. 03/28, No. 280. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with an 18K white gold Roger Dubuis buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. guilloché black with applied white gold Breguet numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5 minute/seconds Arabic markers. White gold "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 57, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator, skeletonized rotor with gold initials "DR". Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 9 mm.