Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 467

TAG HEUER MONACO V4 - THE FIRST BELT-DRIVEN MOVEMENT - PLATINUM LIMITED EDITION TAG Heuer, Swiss, `Monaco V4`, No. 103/150, Ref. WAW2170.FC6261. Made in a limited edition of 150 pieces for the 150th Anniversary of Tag Heuer, circa 2009. Extremely fine, avant-garde and innovative, motor-racing engine-inspired, large and heavy, cushion-shaped platinum, self-winding, water-resistant wristwatch with semi- skeletonized visible movement controlled by five drive-belts, four barrels, tungsten linear winding WEIGHT and a platinum Tag Heuer deployant clasp.

Two-body, cushion-form, polished and brushed, back trisected with three transparent apertures to view the barrels and winding weight, four screws, angled lugs, bevelled and arched sapphire crystal. Applied faceted baton indexes on the movement plates, outer engraved minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at 4. Luminous blued steel baton hands. Brushed rhodium plated, semi-skeletonized, 48 jewels, two pairs of barrels in series, set in parallel and angled at 13 degrees and storing 450g of energy each, 12g tungsten ingot winding mass mounted on ball bearings, belt-driven transmission via a relay of five notched polyether block amide micro drive-belts tensioned by two turnbuckles, straight line lever escapement, 28,800 VPH, 3-arm Glucydur balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator. Case and movement signed.