Bonhams New York 11.03.2024 ----> Andersen Genève early white dial Worldtime

 Dear watch aficionado.

I am a big fan of the timepieces made by Svend, especially the early Worldtime watches as this "Communication" with its great looking white dial. I do prefer as well this white dial version then the blue dial example with the world map on it. It looks cleaner and it reminds me more about the legendary Patek Philippe 1415, which is one of my all time favorite timepieces and so I always tend as well to call this Andersen Genève "1415". The more, this white dial is rarer to find then the blue example and probably produced in only a few dozen examples. Another interesting information about these "Communication" pieces is that the case has the hallmark of APG (Andersen Perret Genève) but the cases were actually made by Jean-Pierre Haguemann (JHP) but his hallmark was not stamped into the inside of the caseback.

Here is the link to the Bonhams auction in New York, which will end on Monday March 11. In the description they say that the watch comes without accessories.

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Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
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photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

photo by Bonhams

F1 & Nascar racing weekend ----> Rolex 6262 Panda on the wrist

 Dear watch aficionado.

For this F1 and NASCAR racing weekend this ROLEX 6262 Newman Panda is the perfect sports watch to put on the wrist.

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Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
www.watchcollector.lu

 

 

Guilloché main -----> details on the Benzinger GAP

Dear watch aficionado.

Guilloché main - Herewith I want to show you some nice details on this beautiful guilloché main dial on this lovely Benzinger GAP with its original Breguet frost finish and rose gilted details. All the guilliché made by Benzinger is done at his atelier on 100+ year old guilloché machines, all manually operated.

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Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
www.watchcollector.lu

 

 

NEW at www.watchcollector.lu -----> Unique Grieb & Benzinger chronographe rattrapante, Patek for Tiffany 1889

Dear watch aficionado.

NEW available at my boutique www.watchcollector.lu is this

 

Grieb & Benzinger chronographe rattrapante, regulateur

Patek Philippe for Tiffany&co movement from 1889

Unique timepiece

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This Grieb & Benzinger is hand made with a Patek Philippe chronographe rattrapante movement from 1889, which was sold to Tiffany & co. in 1890. The movement is technically modified to get the regulateur indication. The more, all parts are either hand engraved, hand guilloché or hand skeletonized finished. The case is specially made to mesure for the movement with as well a hand made crown and pusher and hand guilloché bezel. It took Hermann Grieb and Jochen Benzinger more then 1000 hours of pure craftsmenship to finish this spectacular unique timepiece.

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I welcome and will respond to your request on my address: info@watchcollector.lu

ChB

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Movement:

Patek Philippe chronographe rattrapante

Made in 1889, sold to Tiffany & co. in 1890

Swiss lever escapement

Compensation balance with Breguet hairspring

26 jewels

32 hours power reserve

All parts are either hand engraved, hand guilloché or hand skeletonized

Technically modified for Regulateur indication

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Case:

Platinum

Made to measure for this movement

Hand made crown, pusher and hand guilloché bezel

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Dial:

Regulateur

Hand guilloché

Original Breguet Frost

 

 

Épargne ----> some details on this perfect Patek Philippe 2584 black épargne dial

 

Dear watch aficionado.

 

Épargne - Herewith I want to show you some details on this beautiful black épargne dial on this perfect Patek Philippe 2584.

 

The dial is made by Cadran Stern with the complicated "épargne" technique, which means that first the base plate is gilted, then the signature, minuterie and small seconds are protected by a special lacquer, after that the dial is colored in a black galvanique bath. After the black color has dried, the protective lacquer is taken off. Later the hour baton indexes and the 12 o'clock indexes are added. The indexes are fixed by "pickage" and then leveled by "limage" as you can see on the photo of the dial from the back. This method called "pickage & limage" was used back then at that time. These methods, "épargne, pickage, limage" can be seen as well on famous dials as the Bao Dai.

 

Kind regards.

Christian

www.watchcollector.lu