Donnerstag, 13. März 2025

NEW at my boutique ---> Benzinger GAP2

Dear watch aficionado.

NEW available at my boutique is the new version of the GAP by Benzinger, the GAP2 with power reserve indication. This is the version with frosted dial. 

¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦

Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu

 

 




 

Montag, 10. März 2025

RIP Jean-Pierre Hagmann, JHP

 Dear watch aficionado.

RIP Jean-Pierre, JHP. It was a great honour and pleasure to have known you. Not only that you were an extraordinary casemaker, but the more you were as well a great person.

 Kind regards.

Christian

 

Jean-Pierre Hagmann, Paul Buclin, Helmut Crott. At one of the legendary dinners

 

Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2025

Rolex 6265 Big Red black dial

 

Dear watch aficionado.

 Loved this beauty quite a lot, Rolex 6265 Big Red black dial in absolutely superb condition as they are rarely seen nowadays.

¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦

Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu

 

 


 

 



 

Montag, 10. Februar 2025

Rolex 6262 Newman Panda

 Dear watch aficionado.

 Loved this beauty quite a lot, Rolex 6262 Newman Panda with a perfectly preserved dial, as they are rarely seen now a days.

¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦

Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu

  

 


 

 

 

Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2025

Bovet monorattrapante, 1940, black épargne

 Dear watch aficionado.

This is a timepiece that I loved quite a lot, a Bovet monorattrapante with its beautiful black épargne dial and radium lume. From the 1940s.

¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦

Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu

 




Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2024

Best wishes 2024/2025

 Dear watch aficionado.

I do wish you all some superb last days of this year and a great start into the new year.

¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦

Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu

 

 


 

Donnerstag, 21. November 2024

Geneva auctions, November 2024 ----> Patek Philippe, Rolex, Breguet, Derek Pratt, FPJ, Dufour

 Dear watch aficionado.

Herewith I want to show you some of the timepieces that I could inspect during the auction weekend this month in Geneva. Some very spectacular, beautiful and rare watches were up for sale again.

Kind regards.

ChB

 

 

These five superb Patek Philippe timepieces were sold by Sotheby's. I wanted to have a photo with these five watches together as it really shows some horological importance in one photo.

  • 2499 first series, pink gold, Wenger case
  • 1518 pink gold
  • 2499 second series, yellow gold, with modified bracelet
  • 1436 with all gravé & émaillé dial, probably unique
  • 1563 yellow gold, unique with the lume dial
     





 

These three timepieces I really love to see, sold at Phillips. Especially the Derek Pratt Oval Tourbillon, a watch that I know for the past 10 years and which means a lot to me. Then there was the François Paul Journe Tourbillon 15/93 which was really great to see in metal. Looking forward if the N°11/91 (which is in the personal collection of Mr. Journe himself) ever comes to the market. And then there was as well a previously unknown Philippe Dufour Duality.

 







 Another watch that I really loved to see is the following Breguet calendrier perpetuel with retrograde date from the mid 1930s. A watch that really has a great appearance on the wrist and a very nice aura. It was sold at Christie's.





The more, Christie's had this very nice Rolex 6062 pink gold Stelline in their auction and this nice and early Daniel Roth Tourbillon Régulateur.





At Antiquorum I had a look at this early François Paul Journe Tourbillon N°24, where the number is engraved on the caseback. I think that there are only three FPJ Tourbillon known with this type of serial engraving on the caseback.