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Auction archive: Lot number 2366

GERALD GENTA A PAIR OF WESTMINSTER CHIMING GRAND COMPLICATIONS

Important Watches
8 Oct 2013
Estimate
HK$800,000 - HK$1,200,000
ca. US$103,174 - US$154,761
Price realised:
HK$3,040,000
ca. US$392,062
Auction archive: Lot number 2366

GERALD GENTA A PAIR OF WESTMINSTER CHIMING GRAND COMPLICATIONS

Important Watches
8 Oct 2013
Estimate
HK$800,000 - HK$1,200,000
ca. US$103,174 - US$154,761
Price realised:
HK$3,040,000
ca. US$392,062
Beschreibung:

Gerald Genta A Pair of Westminster Chiming Grand Complications AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND UNIQUE PAIR OF PLATINUM MINUTE REPEATING WESTMINSTER CHIMING GRANDE SONNERIE PERPETUAL CALENDAR CLOCKS WITH DOUBLE RETROGRADE DATE AND LEAP YEAR, WITH PHASES OF THE MOON CIRCA 1990 NO. 1 BLUE CASE G009.7-71534 MVT 21341 PINK CASE G009.7-71535 MVT 21342 • each clock with jewelled nickel lever movement, highly engraved with scrolls, bi-metallic compensation balance, minute repeating on four different toned gongs through four polished steel hammers, stamped with the Seal of Geneva, blue or pink tinged mother-of-pearl dial with baguette diamond numerals, light blue sapphire or light pink sapphire five minute indexes, windows for day and month, blue or pink sector for phases of the moon, arched retrograde date sector, smaller arched sector for retrograde leap year indicator, the large scallop shaped case with winding and setting crown at 12, repeating activation button at 3, strike/silent lever at 9, both with glazed backs to reveal the movements, each clock set on either a blue chalcedony or pink quartz base • cases, dials and movements signed height 11 cm each

Auction archive: Lot number 2366
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
Beschreibung:

Gerald Genta A Pair of Westminster Chiming Grand Complications AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND UNIQUE PAIR OF PLATINUM MINUTE REPEATING WESTMINSTER CHIMING GRANDE SONNERIE PERPETUAL CALENDAR CLOCKS WITH DOUBLE RETROGRADE DATE AND LEAP YEAR, WITH PHASES OF THE MOON CIRCA 1990 NO. 1 BLUE CASE G009.7-71534 MVT 21341 PINK CASE G009.7-71535 MVT 21342 • each clock with jewelled nickel lever movement, highly engraved with scrolls, bi-metallic compensation balance, minute repeating on four different toned gongs through four polished steel hammers, stamped with the Seal of Geneva, blue or pink tinged mother-of-pearl dial with baguette diamond numerals, light blue sapphire or light pink sapphire five minute indexes, windows for day and month, blue or pink sector for phases of the moon, arched retrograde date sector, smaller arched sector for retrograde leap year indicator, the large scallop shaped case with winding and setting crown at 12, repeating activation button at 3, strike/silent lever at 9, both with glazed backs to reveal the movements, each clock set on either a blue chalcedony or pink quartz base • cases, dials and movements signed height 11 cm each

Auction archive: Lot number 2366
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
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