"Bezel-Wound Minute-Repeater & Perpetual Calendar" Antoine Preziuso, Geneve, No. 003. Made in a very small series in 1991. Very fine and extremely rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar, Preziuso's patented bezel winding mechanism for the repeater and an 18K yellow gold Antoine Preziuso buckle. | Important Collector's Watches, Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, 11th November 2007
"Bezel-Wound Minute-Repeater & Perpetual Calendar" Antoine Preziuso, Geneve, No. 003. Made in a very small series in 1991. Very fine and extremely rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar, Preziuso's patented bezel winding mechanism for the repeater and an 18K yellow gold Antoine Preziuso buckle., CHF 70,000 - 85,000 EUR 42,000 - 50,000 / USD 60,000 - 70,000 C. Three-body, polished, stepped curved bezel, undercurved band, "Maltese" lugs, transparent back, sapphire crystals. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes and outer baton minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, months and leap-year indication, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the border. Blackened gold "Breguet" hands. M. 12''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by rotating the bezel anti-clockwise. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...
Geneva, Nov 11, 2007
LOT 29 "Bezel-Wound Minute-Repeater & Perpetual Calendar" Antoine Preziuso, Geneve, No. 003. Made in a very small series in 1991. Very fine and extremely rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar, Preziuso's patented bezel winding mechanism for the repeater and an 18K yellow gold Antoine Preziuso buckle.
CHF 70,000 - 85,000 EUR 42,000 - 50,000 / USD 60,000 - 70,000
C. Three-body, polished, stepped curved bezel, undercurved band, "Maltese" lugs, transparent back, sapphire crystals. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes and outer baton minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, months and leap-year indication, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the border. Blackened gold "Breguet" hands. M. 12''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by rotating the bezel anti-clockwise. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
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