Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 100

Roger Dubuis, Genève, "Sympathie, Minute-Repeater Perpetual Calendar,? No. 08/09. Made in a limited edition of only 9 examples in the 2000s. Very fine and very rare, carré-cambré, astronomic, minute-repeating, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K white gold Roger Dubuis deployant clasp.

USD 50,000 - 70,000

EUR 40,000 - 55,000

Sold: USD 78,200

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws and etched crystal, concavestepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Very light metallic blue with applied white gold dart indexes and Breguetnumerals, subsidiary dial for the date at 5, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the leap year and themoon phases. White gold faceted "alpha" hands. M. Cal. RD 2639, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark,rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balanceadjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometerregulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 38 x 38 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.


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Roger Dubuis. The company 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) grad-ually evolved into the success story of a manufacturer with close to 150 employees today. Roger Dubuis was born in 1940 in Vevey, Switzerland and completed his studies at the Geneva Ecole d'Horlogerie. After working for 14 years in Patek Philippe?s complicated timepieces atelier, in 1980, he became an independent watchmaker, restoring antique collectors? timepieces, developing projects for some of the best Swiss watch houses, and pursuing research on what would become the future specialty of the company: retrograde indications. Today the brand offers several lines of watches with four of their own calibers and their own complications. Each model is limited to 28 examples, all are certi-fied as chronometers and the entire production bears the Poinçon de Genève. In 2002, Roger Dubuis moved into a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility in Meyrin, which is currently undergoing expansion.