A new sale of collector's watches will take place on Sunday, October 17 at 2 p.m. at the Bordeaux Quinconces auction house.
The opportunity to immerse yourself in what collectible watchmaking does best with quality pieces for all budgets, tastes and wrists.
A sale to which you can also participate online via the Interenchères website.
Here are the few favorites of the week for collectors of beautiful hours, scanned from the catalog of this sale.
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A Reverso with a skeleton movement (Lot n ° 17 - Est. 9500 - 12000 €)
Celebrate in style the 90 years of the cult Art Deco watch by Jaeger-LeCoultre, with this astonishing version from 2001, produced in very few copies, with an apparent movement and fully decorated, skeletonized and chiseled in 18-carat pink gold.
Added to this is a solid silver guilloché wave Art Deco-style dial with a beaded railroad.
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A Blancpain GMT alarm clock (Lot n ° 18 - Est. 10,000 - 11,000 €)
How to combine the useful with the pleasant?
By wearing a sports complication watch cut for globetrotters, with its GMT and Alarm functions.
This Blancpain ref.
2841-3642 from 2010 with a pink gold case combines the functions: hours, minutes, small seconds counter at 6 o'clock, large power reserve at 10 o'clock, small dial for reading the alarm clock at 3 o'clock (adjustment by the push-button at 4 h), ringtone recharge indicator at 12 o'clock (activated by the screwed push-button at 8 o'clock), date window between 4 and 5 o'clock and 2nd time zone reading by the red hand around the dial ...
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A Patek Philippe Ellipse, otherwise nothing (Lot n ° 65 - Est. 3000 - 4000 €)
The waiting lists of the famous Geneva manufacture are a lot of talk.
All the more reason not to wait and immediately treat yourself to the most sober and elegant of the house's creations.
A very reasonably estimated Patek Philippe in yellow gold known as Roman (Ref. 3546), from the end of the 1980s, in yellow gold, with an oval case with a monobloc back signed PP, hallmarked and numbered.
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A Memovox worthy of a museum (Lot n ° 61 - Est. 2000 - 3000 €)
Attention, rarity!
This Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox mechanical Date / GT in yellow gold (ref. E11005) was produced around 1969. It combines an elegant round-shaped case with oversized horn handles with a gadrooned bezel, and above all with a rare special screwed back ring. compressor (signed Le Coultre & Co, hallmarked and numbered).
Memovox obliges, we find on its brushed silver dial a central railway disc with arrow applied for setting the alarm clock (crown at 2 o'clock for winding the function).
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A Breitling seventies pilot's chrono (Lot n ° 66 - Est. 2500 - 3000 €)
While the fashion of the Youngtimers swept over the world of vintage cars, new generation of enthusiasts required, it was the same for watches from this period.
Impossible to miss this beauty signed Breitling, a Pilot Top Time chronograph - White cushion ref.
814).
Dating from the 1970s, this steel piece features a cushion-shaped case that we would love to see reissued by the manufacture, let's face it.
Admire this silvered and patinated dial with three black counters (small seconds 9 o'clock, hour at 6 o'clock and minute at 3 o'clock with countdown in red), with large orange second hand for the chronograph, internal tachymeter scale partly erased on the flange, and crown signed.
A little gem of style.
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A Heuer Monaco from 1972 (Lot n ° 69 - Est. 8,000 - 10,000 €)
Here is a rare version of the racing chronograph made legendary by the film Le Mans.
Its massive square-shaped case with sharp angles in brushed steel and a nested caseback has not aged a bit.
Its metallic silver dial bears the Monaco marking at 9 o'clock in homage to the legendary F1 Grand Prix.
A watch delivered moreover with two straps, an oiled gray pilot leather and a black order leather.
All you have to do is find the Porsche racing car that goes with it ...
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A Heuer Monaco Three counters (Lot n ° 70 - Est. 8,000 - 10,000 €)
Heuer fans will have the choice in this sale, with this other Monaco chronograph - 3 Blue counters ref.
73633 B. An edition of 1000 copies also produced around 1972, magnificent with its three white counters (seconds at 9 o'clock, hours totalizer at 6 o'clock and minutes at 3 o'clock) and its large red second hand.
Delivered with two bracelets, a vintage pilot in oiled leather and its vintage Heuer steel bracelet, it carries a mechanical manual winding caliber HEUER LEONIDAS / Valjoux 7736 Swiss.
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An elegant vintage Omega (Lot n ° 73 - Est. 1100 - 1400 €)
Direction the early 1970s with this Omega ref.
166.079, circa 1969, the “best-seller” of the 1970s from the Omega manufacture, created in 1967. We love the look of its oval tonneau-shaped steel case with a monobloc back, with its two-tone blue dial with double aperture. date at 3 o'clock, its large blue second hand and its brand new blue leather Omega strap with vintage pin buckle).