Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 121

Roger Dubuis, horloger genevois,"Sympathie", No. 06/09. Produced in a limited edition of 9 examples in 1998.Very fine and rare, "carrée cambrée", water-resistant, astronomic, minute- repeating, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with bi-retrograde, perpetual calendar and moon phases and an 18K white gold Roger Dubuis deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, an additional solid 18K white gold case back and 2 certificates.

USD 90,000 - 110,000

EUR 84,000 - 102,000

Sold: USD 101,500

C .three -body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws, stepped bezel, screwed white gold bars, sapphire crystals. D. white with applied, faceted and square white gold indexes, sectors for the retrograde days of the week and the retrograde days of the month, auxiliary dials for the months, the leap year and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. "Alpha" faceted white gold hands. M. Cal. RD 2607 stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodium-plated, "fauses côtes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 33 x 50 mm.


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Roger DubuisA young brand with great horological know how and experience, perhaps best characterizes this company which was founded in 1995 by Master Watchmaker Roger Dubuis and his partner, Carlos Diaz. What began with just one employee has-since the introduction of a first collection in 1996 at the prestigious Geneva SIHH salon-gradually evolved into the success story of a manufacture with close to 150 employees today.Roger Dubuis was born in 1940 in Vevey, Switzerland and visited the Ecole d'horlogerie de Genève. After working for Patek Philippe for 14 years in their atelier of complicated timepieces, he decided in 1980 to start out as an independent watchmaker, restoring antique collector's timepieces, developing projects for some of the best Swiss watch houses and pursuing research on what would become his future company's specialty - retrograde indications.Today the brand offers several lines of watches with 4 of their own calibers and their own complications. Each model is limited to 28 examples, all are certified as chronometers and the entire production bears the Poinçon de Genève, the Geneva Seal.In 2002, Roger Dubuis, horloger genevois moved into a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility in Meyrin.