Vintage & Modern Wrist Watches Monday 19th January 2015 Vintage & Modern Wrist Watches Monday 19th January 2015 at 11.00am Welcome to the first Vintage and Modern Wristwatch Auction of 2015. Fellows can always be relied on for a broad selection of both vintage and contemporary watches but this sale has some real gems. The lovers of chronographs are spoilt for choice with recent offerings such as Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Offshore, Hublot’s Big Bang and Rolex’s Daytona as well as vintage Breitling Navitimers, an Enicar Sherpa Graph and a LeCoultre. Statement pieces come in the form of a De Witt tourbillon, a Roger DuBuis Aquamare, an 18ct gold Breitling Emergency or a Backes & Strauss Regent Monarch with over 1000 diamonds. If subtlety is more your style, we have dress watches from Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Omega and of course Rolex. Please take time to browse the catalogue in details and if you have any questions, our friendly and knowledgeable team will be only too happy to help. Index Selected Wrist Watches 1 - 194 Military Watches 195 - 197 Miscellaneous Watches 198 - 204 Featured lots Viewing times Lot 138 (front cover) Lot 138 (back cover) Tuesday 13th January - 10.00am - 4.00pm Wednesday 14th January - 10.00am - 6.30pm Friday 16th January - 10.00am - 4.00pm Saturday 17th January - 11.00am - 4.00pm Monday 19th January - 8.30am - 11.00am Please be aware that you will be asked for photographic proof of identifi cation to be allowed access to the viewing area. Augusta House | 19 Augusta Street | Birmingham B18 6JA | Tel 0121 212 2131 | Fax 0121 212 1249 | www.fellows.co.uk | [email protected] Company No. 7155090 General Information Why Buy? Why Sell? 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For any further enquiries please call 0121 212 2131 An auction of Vintage & Modern Wrist Watches Monday 20th April at 11am An invitation to consign A COMEX issue gentleman’s Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller bracelet watch Sold for £43,000 A fine late 19th century French ormulo mounted twin handled vase & cover. For more information please contact Conrad Cunningham on 0121Estimate 212 5506 £400 or -email £600 [email protected] Selected Wrist Watches Selected Wristwatches AUDEMARS PIGUET 4 BREITLING 5 BULGARI 8 BULOVA 9 CARTIER 9 CHOPARD 13 CORUM 13 CUERVO Y SOBRINOS 14 DEWITT 14 EBEL 14 ENICAR 15 ETERNA 16 FRANCK MULLER 16 GARRARD 18 GIRARD-PERREGAUX 18 GRUEN 18 GUCCI 18 HAMILTON 18 HERMES 18 HUBLOT 19 JAEGER-LECOULTRE 19 LECOULTRE 20 LONGINES 20 MAURICE LACROIX 21 MOVADO 23 OMEGA 23 PATEK PHILIPPE 29 PIAGET 29 UNIVERSAL GENEVE 45 ROGER DUBUIS 30 VACHERON CONSTANTIN 46 ROLEX 30 ZENITH 46 TAG HEUER 41 MILITARY 48 TISSOT 43 MISCELLANEOUS TUDOR 43 WRIST WATCHES 49 Selected Wrist Watches 2 1 AUDEMARS PIGUET - a lady’s Royal Oak wrist watch. Numbered F87686. Signed quartz calibre 2712. Silvered “Tapisserie” dial with baton hour markers, date aperture to three. Stainless steel bezel set with thirty-two diamonds, stainless steel case fitted to a signed black alligator strap with stainless steel deployant clasp. 33mm. Box and papers. £2,500-3,000 3 AUDEMARS PIGUET - a gentleman’s Royal Oak bracelet watch. Reference B43833, serial 2026. Signed automatic calibre 21C. Silvered “Petite Tapisserie” dial with baton hour markers, date aperture to three. Yellow AUDEMARS PIGUET - a gentleman’s Royal Oak Offshore chronograph bracelet metal bezel, stainless steel watch. Reference 25721ST.OO.1000ST.09.A, serial F61965-9502. Signed case fitted to a signed automatic calibre 21C. Blue “Méga Tapisserie” dial with Arabic numeral hour bi-metal link bracelet with markers, subsidiary recorder dials to six, nine and twelve, date aperture to three. deployant clasp. 34mm. Stainless steel case fitted to a signed stainless steel bracelet with double folding £1,800-2,600 clasp. 42mm. Box and papers. £8,000-12,000 4 Condition reports available for all these lots at www.fellows.co.uk 46 AUDEMARS PIGUET - a gentleman’s bracelet watch. Import hallmarked London 1961. Numbered 22624. Signed manual wind calibre 2003. Silvered dial with baton hour markers. 18ct gold case fitted to a signed yellow metal bracelet with folding clasp stamped 750. 31mm. 73gms. £1,200-1,800 5 BREITLING - a gentleman’s Professional Emergency bracelet watch. Reference BREITLING - a gentleman’s Navitmer 806 chronograph wrist watch. Numbered K56321, numbered 1064649. Signed manual wind movement. Black dial with baton hour markers, 110. Quartz subsidiary recorder dials to three, six and nine. Slide rule bezel, stainless steel case movement. Black dial fitted to an unsigned black leather strap with unsigned stainless steel pin buckle. with Arabic numeral 41mm. Box and papers. hour markers, digital The Navitimer is the model that really made Breitling’s name and cemented their displays to twelve relationship with aviation. Created in partnership with AOPO (Aircraft Owners & and six. Calibrated Pilots Association) and adopted as their official watch the first generation were bezel, 18ct gold released in the early 1950s with the model name but without Breitling on the dial. case fitted to an 18ct gold bracelet The later second generation 806 Navitimer saw the introduction of the notched with folding clasp. bezel that is still in use today and the change in colour of the sub-dials from black 43mm. 265gms. Box. to silver. This example features the classic hand wound Venus 178 movement with £7,000-10,000 original box and papers from 1968. £1,200-1,800 For any further enquiries please call 0121 212 2131 5 7 8 BREITLING - a gentleman’s Aeromarine Colt wrist watch. BREITLING - a gentleman’s Reference A17380, Aeromarine Colt Oceane wrist serial 1159491. Signed watch. Reference A17050. automatic calibre 17. Signed automatic calibre Blue dial with baton hour 17. Black dial with Arabic markers, date aperture to numerals alternating with silver three. Calibrated bezel, batons, date aperture to three. stainless steel case fitted Calibrated bezel, stainless to a signed black rubber steel case fitted to an unsigned strap with stainless steel brown leather strap with signed pin buckle. 41mm. Box stainless steel pin buckle. and papers. £680-880 38mm. £400-600 9 10 11 BREITLING - a gentleman’s Chronomatic 49 chronograph wrist watch. Circa 2008. Reference A14360, serial 2451752. Signed automatic calibre B14. Bronze dial with luminous hour markers, subsidiary sunken silvered recorder dials to three, six BREITLING - a gentleman’s BREITLING - a gentleman’s Chrono and nine, date Chronomat Vitesse chronograph Colt Quartz chronograph bracelet aperture to six. Black bracelet watch. Reference B13050.1, watch. Reference A53035, serial rubber calibrated serial 211075. Signed automatic 24262. Signed quartz movement. bezel with inner calibre 13. White dial with Arabic White dial with luminous baton hour slide rule, stainless numeral hour markers, subsidiary markers, luminous Arabic twelve, steel case fitted to a recorder dials to twelve, six and subsidiary recorder dials to two, six signed black rubber nine, date aperture to three, outer and ten, date aperture set between strap with stainless tachymeter scale. Calibrated bezel, four and five. Calibrated bezel, steel deployant stainless steel case fitted to a stainless stainless steel case fitted to a stainless clasp. 49mm. Box. steel Pilot bracelet with folding clasp. steel Professional bracelet with folding £1,800-2,600 40mm. £700-900 clasp. 38mm. £300-500 6 Condition reports available for all these lots at www.fellows.co.uk 58 13 70 49 73 2 12 13 BREITLING - a gentleman’s Professional Emergency Mission bracelet watch.