Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 86

BOVET REF. C 804 SAGUARO SPORTSTER CHRONOGRAPH WHITE GOLD Bovet Fleurier S.A., Genève, "Sportster," case No. 007880, Ref. C 804. Made circa 2008. Fine and unusual, asymmetric, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, large date and an 18K white gold Bovet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and instruction manual.

Three-body, polished, rounded polished band, polished inclined bezel, asymmetric Vendome-type lugs with screwed bars at 6, extended mobile geometrical-shaped pendant and winding crown at 12, screwed-down transparent case back, square chronograph buttons at 11 and 1, sapphire crystals. Black with printed silver radial Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale, subsidiary sunk dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, double aperture for the date at 12. White gold skeletonized baton hour and minute hands and serpentine chronograph hand. Cal. 13BA01, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes, 28 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 22K gold rotor.