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Geneva, September 28,  2007 – Antiquorum, the world’s leading watch auctioneer, is proud to present their October sale entitled Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket Watches & Clocks to be held at the Grand Hotel Kempinski (formerly Hilton) in Geneva on October 13 & 14. This important sale will offer 530 extraordinary lots including exceptional timepieces from private collections, some with very important provenance.

One such watch is the exceptional and highly important Breguet “montre garde-temps à tourbillon”. This was the first four-minute tourbillon to be made by Breguet and was sold in 1809 to Count Stanislas Potocki; a Polish nobleman, politician, writer, collector and patron of the arts, who was one of the most emblematic figures of the Age of Enlightenment in his country.

An exquisite and extremely rare pre-balance spring, single-hand, pendant watch, made in ca. 1650, by the eminent maker Goullons a Paris is included in the sale. depicting “Semiramis Called to Arms” Blois or Paris painted-on-enamel The case is attributed to the Toutin workshop. Today very few of examples of this type of watch remains in private hands, most of them being preserved in museum collections.

Among very fine wristwatches there is an exceptionally rare, extremely fine and important Water-Resistant Ref. 1463/1563 “Rattrapante” made in 1947 to be sold in this auction. Split-second chronographs with waterproof case and round push buttons are extremely rare.

From private collections included in the catalogue are some from the highly important timepieces illustrated in the book “The Collection”.  Such as watches and clocks made by Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Cartier and Rolex.

The second session of the sale will be dedicated to a Swiss private collection of more than 100 modern watches including brands such as Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, Omega, and Breguet. Those timepieces are to be sold without reserve and are in most parts accompanied with original case and certificate. 

A selection of the timepieces will be shown in New York, Taipei and Hong Kong before returning to Antiquorum’s Showroom in Geneva.

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The “Top Lots”

 

LOT 530  
« Ref. 1463/1563, Rattrapante” Patek Philippe, Genève. One of the main highlights of this sale is certainly the exceptionally rare and extremely fine, important, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register and tachometer dial fitted with luminous Breguet numerals. Made in 1947.
Estimate: ***

 

LOT 529
“A Monsieur le Comte S. Potocki » Breguet,
Chronometer No. 1176, sold through Monsieur Moreau à St. Petersburg on February 12, 1809 for the sum of 4600 francs. Gold pocket chronometer watch with four minute tourbillon and “échappement naturel”, double subsidiary seconds and winding indicator, No1 of a series of four 4-minute tourbillon watches. In excellent condition.
Estimate: 900,000 CHF - 1,200,000 CHF
(EUR 550,000 - 730,000)    (USD 750,000 - 1,000,000

 

LOT 199
Patek Philippe, Genève Yellow Gold “Ref. 2499”“Third Series”.
Very fine, rare and important,18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with round button chronograph, 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and moon phases. Made in the 1960’s.
Estimate: 500,000 CHF - 600,000 CHF
(EUR 300,000 - 365,000)    (USD 415,000 - 500,000)

 

LOT 160
Platinum Tourbillon “Pour le Mérite”
Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I. SA, No. 43/50. Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, platinum gentlemen’s wrist watch with power reserve indication.
Estimate:
Sfr. 210’000 – 250’000 / € 130’000 – 150’000 / US$ 175’000 – 210’000

 

LOT 159
“Yellow Gold Souscription Set No. 25” Breguet.
Extremely fine, rare and important set of two watches: an 18K yellow gold minute repeating wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an18K yellow gold, self-winding “perpetuelle” pocket watch with power reserve, instantaneous calendar, phases and age of the moon. Made in 1996.
Estimate:
SFr. 210’000 – 250’000 / € 130’000 – 150’000 / US$ 175’000 – 210’000


 

LOT 387
“Motel Marine Chronometer No. 212”
Hri. Motel, Hger de la Marine Rle., “Chronometre à Suspension”, No.212. Sold to the Depot de la Marine on June 16, 1840, for 2,400 Francs.
Very fine, rare and important, mahogany, 30-hour marine chronometer with Motel’s front winding, Louis Berthoud-type pivoted detent escapement and conical balance spring.
Estimate: 50,000 CHF - 70,000 CHF
(EUR 30,000 - 45,000)    (USD 42,000 - 60,000)

 

LOT 196
Ref. 1579 “Pink Gold”
Patek Philippe, Genève, Extremely fine and rare, oversized, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer. Made in 1958.
Estimate:
SFr. 165’000 – 190’000 / € 100’000 – 116’000 / US$ 135’000 – 158’000

 

LOT 194
“Military”
Rolex, Oyster Precision” Ref. 6154.
Exceptionally rare and fine, large, cushion shaped, water-resistant, stainless steel, military diver’s wristwatch. One of 6 pieces made in 1954.
Estimate:
SFr. 135’000 – 160’000 / € 85’000 – 100’000 / US$ 110’000 – 130’000

 

LOT 139
“First-Class Chronometer Tourbillon”
Girard-Perregaux. Chaux-de-Fonds. Very fine and very rare, 18k rose gold, hunting cased keyless pocket chronometer with one-minute Guinand type II tourbillon regulator and pivoted spring detent escapement. Made circa 1877.
Estimate:
Sfr. 100’000 – 140’000 / € 60’000 – 85’000 / US$ 85’000 – 115’000

 

LOT 165
“Fasoldt Patent Double-Wheel Chronometer”
Charles Fasoldt, Albany N.Y. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket chronometer with detachable winding crown and hand-setting key. Made ca. 1870.
Estimate:
Sfr. 45’000-55’000 / € 27’000-35’000 / US$ 37’000 – 45’000

 

LOT 527
“Extra Large One-Minute Tourbillon-First Class Observatory Rating Obtained in 1932-1933” Philippe Patek, Geneve, Ref. 929. Movement made in 1929, cased in 1984, sold on April 4, 1984.
Extremely fine and exceptionally rare, extra large, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket lever chromometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator by J. Golay-Audemars, Guillaume balance, 36-hour power reserve indication, first-class Observatory rating certificate obtained in 1932-1933. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.
Estimate: 250,000 CHF - 300,000 CHF
(EUR 150,000 - 185,000)    (USD 210,000 - 250,000)
   
 
Lot   528
"Semiramis Called to Arms"
Goullons a Paris. Made circa 1660.
Very fine and extremely rare, painted on enamel on gold, pre-balance spring pendant watch with single hand and concealed dial, the case decorated in Blois or Paris.
Estimate: 450,000 CHF - 550,000 CHF
(EUR 275,000 - 335,000)    (USD 375,000 - 455,000)
   
 
Previews:
NEW YORK
Thursday 27 September & Friday 28 September
The New York TimeZone
The Fuller Building
Tel: +1 212 750 1103

TAIPEI
Thursday 4 & Friday October 5 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
United Hotel
The Hu Room, Level2
No. 200 Guang Fu South Road
Taipei, Taiwan 
Tel: +886 2 27731515

HONG KONG
Sunday 7 & Monday October 8 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Antiquorum Auctioneers (HK) Ltd.
9, Queen’s Road, Suite 1405 Central, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2522 4168

GENEVA
Thursday 11 to Saturday, October 13
Antiquorum’s Showroom 2, rue du Mont-Blanc, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel.+ 41 (0)22 909 28 50

Auction:
Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva
Saturday October 13 at 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 14 at 11a.m.
Sunday, October 14 at 14 p.m.

 




 

Antiquorum is, unquestionably, the world’s leading watch auctioneer; Of the 62 watches ever sold publicly by major auction houses above SFR. 1,000,000, Antiquorum claims an impressive 44 . In 2002, Antiquorum established the all-time world record price for a wristwatch at auction when it sold a platinum Patek Phililppe World Time Ref. 1415 from 1939 for an astounding CHF 6,603,500 (US$ 4,026,524). This record-breaking price more than doubled the previous world record price for a wrist watch at auction. Another record price for a modern watch was achieved in 2004, the unique white gold Calibre 89, also by Patek Phlipe, was sold for SFr. 6,603,500 (US$ 5,002,652).

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