Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 228

"Sympathie" Roger Dubuis, Genève, "Sympathie ? Chronographe, Bulletin d?Observatoire", movement No. 422, No. 13/28, Ref. S46566. Made in a limited series of 28 examples circa 2000. Fine, rare and unusual, "carré cambré", water-resistant, 18K pink gold "Bulletin d'Observatoire" chronometer wristwatch with square-button chronograph, register and an 18K pink gold Roger Dubuis buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, guarantee, Bulletin de Marche and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws, stepped bezel, screwed gold bars, sapphire crystals. D. Black with painted white baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer minute/seconds track with every five Arabic numerals. Luminous pink gold skeletonized baton hands with Arrow tip for the hour hand. M. Cal. RD 56, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 46 x 46 mm. Thickness 13 mm.