Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 292

Roger Dubuis Sympathie ? Bulletin d?Observatoire ? Limited Edition Roger Dubuis, Genève, "Sympathie - Chronographe", No. 14/28. Made in a limited edition of 28 pieces, circa 1999. Very fine, rare and unusual, "carré cambré", water-resistant, 18K white gold "Bulletin d'Observatoire" chronometer wristwatch with oval-button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K white gold Roger Dubuis buckle. Accompanied by a Roger Dubuis fitted box, Certificate of Origin, spare solid 18K white gold back and Bulletin de Marche from the Observatoire de Besançon.

C. Three-body, shaped, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws, stepped bezel, screwed gold bars, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied white gold Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. RD56, 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 flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 37 x 37 mm. Thickness 10 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman