Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 48

SVEND ANDERSEN 1884 WORLD TIME PINK GOLD Andersen, Geneve, Universal Coordinated Times, No. 003 / 120. Made in a limited edition of 120 pieces in 2004 to commemorate the 120th Anniversary of the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold world time wristwatch with 24-hour indication and an 18K yellow gold Andersen buckle. Accompanied by the original leather box, Certificate of Origin, instructions and a booklet :120 Years of World Time..

C. Two-body, polished, stepped bezel, flat band, straight lugs, transparent case back, the border engraved Universal Coordinated Times, screw-down winding crown, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with central world map and meridians, applied pink gold dot indexes, outer 24-hour ring divided into nocturnal and diurnal hours, outer revolving ring with names of 31 various world cities. Pink gold skeletonized triangular hands. M. Cal. 1127OC, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, rotor with gold plate engraved with a portrait of Sandford Fleming and Sandford Fleming, 1827-1915, Inventor of World Time. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 41 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm.