The top lots for the auction are as follows:
'The Hunt' Watch with 13 Complications Gideon & Co., Locle, Swiss, No. 86825, the movement attributable to Henry Grandjean & Cie., (Le Locle). Made for the Indian market, circa 1900, sold to the Sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mahbub Ali Khan (reigned 1869 '1911). Very fine, important and rare, astronomic, grande and petite sonnerie, minute-repeating, heavy 18K yellow gold, painted on enamel and rose-cut diamond-set eight day going twotrain keyless clockwatch with triple date, chronograph, central progressive minute recording hand, moon phases and lunar calendar.
Sold for 2,079,000.00 HKD
Estimate HKD 1,800,000 - 2,200,000
USD 240,000 - 300,000
EUR 180,000 - 220,000
Sixteen Rolex Wristwatches with Special Fancy Colored Dials" Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual Day-Date, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified" and Rolex "Oyster Perpetual Datejust, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified". Very fine and extremely rare, a collection of sixteen self-winding, water-resistant, center seconds gentleman's wristwatches with special fancy colored dials and day and date calendar, one with date calendar only.
Sold for 1,743,000.00 HKD
Estimate HKD 1,600,000 - 2,000,000
USD 210,000 - 265,000
EUR 160,000 - 200,000
Platinum 'Watch with 10 Complications' Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Geneve, No. 17371, case No. 386392. Made in December 1936. Very fine and exceptional, minute-repeating, Art Deco, astronomical, platinum, keyless dress watch with split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute instantaneous register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Accompanied by an Ulysse Nardin box and a certificate.
Sold for 1,743,000.00 HKD
Estimate HKD 1,200,000 - 1,400,000
USD 160,000 - 185,000
EUR 120,000 - 140,000
'Watch with Seven Complications' Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 97484, case No. 222000. Made in 1894, sold on March 10, 1899. Very fine, rare, and important, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K pink gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, phases and age of the moon. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.
Sold for 1,628,000.00 HKD
Estimate HKD 1,500,000 - 2,000,000
USD 200,000 - 265,000
EUR 150,000 - 200,000
"Lord Kalla" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, No. 722257, case No. 571884, Ref. 35511-723. Made circa 1985. Exceptionally fine, rare and important, impressive, entirely diamond-set with 290 diamonds (total weight of 55 cts.), 18K yellow gold gentleman's bracelet watch with an integral entirely diamond-set bracelet.
Sold for 1,340,500.00 HKD
Estimate HKD 1,000,000 - 1,400,000
USD 130,000 - 185,000
EUR 100,000 - 140,000