Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 291

QUINTING PIÈCE UNIQUE ? ART COLLECTION TECH MOONLIGHT ? MYSTERY WATCH Quinting, Geneva, ?Art Collection Tech Moonlight, Pièce Unique - Guangzhou?, No. 069-13. Made in a limited edition of 360 unique pieces in the 2000s. Fine and unique, water-resistant, black PVD-coated, see-through ?mystery? wristwatch with moon phases and a black PVD-coated Quinting deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Quinting box, warranty and Certificate of Originality

C. Two-body, black PVD-coated, polished, inclined bezel, reeded band with panel inscribed `Pièce Unique`, screw-down crown, curved lugs, transparent back with four screws, sapphire crystals. D. Polished gold with black radial Quinting-style Arabic numerals, inner minute track, transparent center hand-painted with a view of Earth from space for the city of Guangzhou (Canton), the reverse showing a further view, the moon rotating around the earth accurately showing its phases, in the background a comet rotates once per hour. Gold dauphine hands. M. Composed of eight transparent parallel anti-reflective sapphire discs. Crystal and case signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.