Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 301

"Skeleton Retrograde" Daniel Roth, "Retrograde", No. 17. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, double-ellipse-shaped, skeletonized, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with retrograde hours, 42-hour autonomy and an 18K white gold Daniel Roth buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, transparent case back, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with guilloché sector for the retrograde hours in painted Arabic numerals and ring dials for the minutes and seconds. Blued steel "flèche" hands. M. Cal. 3000, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 35 x 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.