Prime Tons Of The Upcoming Indie Watchmaking Geneva Sale of Ineichen

Spring in Geneva means many issues, and never simply walks across the Lake. It’s, in fact, the public sale season. Alongside the Massive Three (Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips), different public sale homes will organise their gross sales within the capital of watchmaking. This yr, Swiss Maison Ineichen Auctioneers will maintain its first public sale in Geneva on Could 9, 10 and 11, 2023. And for its first participation within the Geneva public sale weekend, the Zurich-based home presents a relatively spectacular choice of watches fully devoted to impartial and small inventive manufacturers composed predominantly of distinctive items and very uncommon watches. 

On this article, we’ve chosen six watches that we consider are the very best of the sale, however in fact, there are a lot of extra watches to find. A tourbillon T30 by FP Journe? Sure, there’s one. A Czapek Antacrtique Rattrapante, a De Bethune DB1 (the primary watch of the model) or a watch by Thierry Ducret? Ineichen can have that too. There are even just a few oddities, corresponding to a Cabestan or a Manufacture Royale. You may seek the advice of the complete checklist of watches accessible right here. Be aware that the public sale will begin with a preview and the potential of a fixed-price buy on Could 9-10 on the President Wilson Lodge in Geneva. The stay public sale will probably be held on Could eleventh, from 14:00 Europe Time.

A Distinctive Gerald Genta Tourbillon Sonnerie

LVMH’s current announcement that Gérald Genta will quickly be again as a stand-alone model is large information and can make previous fashions much more fascinating. And when what might be the star lot of Ineichen’s Geneva sale, it’s comprehensible. The watch in query is a novel, spectacular and very difficult yellow gold grande and petite sonnerie minute repeating wristwatch with Westminster chimes and tourbillon from Gérald Genta. That alone is sufficient to create enthusiasm.

The watch in query relies on the technical masterpiece created in 1994 by Pierre-Michel Golay, a motion that was made in very small portions over time. This calibre 31001 – hand-wound, chiming and repeating on 4 hammers on 4 gongs, taking part in a Westminster chime with a unique tune for every quarter – has a reversed hand-fitting scheme in order that the chiming and repeating mechanism, which is often located beneath the dial, is fitted on the reverse facet of the watch, whereas the time indication, tourbillon, hanging hammers and gongs are on the dial facet of the watch. It’s fitted contained in the spherical Area case, with a motion embellished with fleurisanne engraving. This Gérald Genta Grande Sonnerie Carillon Westminster Tourbillon Reference GS1.X.20.893.CN.BA Piece Distinctive is obtainable at a beginning bid of CHF 170,000, and a set value of CHF 400,000. Extra particulars right here.

A Distinctive Titanium Voutilainen 28TI

Additionally a novel watch and in addition made by one of the vital acclaimed impartial watchmakers round, this Voutilainen 28TI is constructed across the in-house base calibre Vingt-8 (with the Peseux 260 as an inspiration) with a posh direct impulse escapement. This mannequin is meticulously completed (in fact) however includes a reversed structure, which means that the steadiness and escapement are displayed dial facet. And whereas this watch was accessible in three restricted editions in titanium, platinum or tantalum, every of 8 or 10 items, just a few distinctive items have been additionally made, similar to this one. It is available in a titanium case with darkish gray bridges and rose gold accents.

This distinctive Titanium Voutilainen 28TI is obtainable at a beginning bid of CHF 130,000 and a set value of CHF 350,000. Extra particulars right here.

Vianney Halter Traditional Salmon/Gold Dial

Whereas removed from being probably the most complicated watch within the Geneva sale, this timepiece by Vianney Halter stays one of many watchmaker’s all-time greats. A watch we already lined within the Collector’s Sequence, it combines the signature steampunk case – in white gold with rose gold rivets on the bezel and a novel lug design – with a dial fabricated from rose gold, giving it a particularly fascinating white steel/salmon dial look. The again, with a sapphire crystal, reveals the automated calibre VH100, with its mysterious mass patented rotor (base Nouvelle Lémania). The general retro-futuristic look is immediately modelled after the Antiqua perpetual calendar watch however in a barely much less provocative method. The general manufacturing of the Vianney Halter Traditional is claimed to be round 250 items (in keeping with varied sources), with solely a fraction flaunting the fascinating salmon-toned dial.

This instance of the Vianney Halter Traditional is obtainable with a beginning bid of CHF 35,000 and a set value of CHF 85,000. Extra particulars right here.

Daniel Roth Monopusher Chronograph C137

Like Genta, Daniel Roth has additionally been relaunched by LVMH, with the presentation of a souscription tourbillon that pays tribute to the grasp’s basic watches. Among the many few watches produced by Daniel Roth when he was nonetheless on the head of his eponymous firm, chronographs maintain a particular place within the coronary heart of collectors. Subsequent to the basic two-pusher Chronograph C147 was one other much more fascinating watch, the Monopusher Chronograph C137. Solely 52 items (36 in gold, 16 in platinum) have been made, and Ineichen right here provides quantity 7. Powered by the calibre Nouvelle Lémania 2220 (also called 15CHT), initially designed within the Thirties, it retains all of the basic design components that made early Roth watches so enticing: double ellipse-shaped 18k yellow gold case, guilloché dial with a Clous de Paris sample, a brushed chapter ring and counter outlines and blued metal palms.

This yellow gold instance of the Daniel Roth Monopusher Chronograph C137 (quantity 7) is obtainable at a beginning bid of CHF 45,000 and a set value of CHF 100,000. Extra particulars right here.

Roger Dubuis Sympathie Chronograph

Overlook about fashionable, provocative Roger Dubuis watches. The actual deal was throughout the Nineties when Roger Dubuis created his model with a collection of chic, unique watches. Along with his previous expertise at Patek Philippe, chronographs have been essential within the early days, and the Sympathie Chronograph is without doubt one of the finest examples. This limited-edition chronograph wristwatch is offered in a uncommon rose gold case with the signature Artwork Deco ‘round-square’ form. The sunshine crème-coloured dial options utilized Breguet numerals, and it’s powered by the hand-wound calibre RD56, with the Poinçon de Genève high quality mark, and with Bulletin d’Observatoire Besancon Observatory chronometer certificates. This mannequin was produced in solely 28 items.

This rose gold instance of the Roger Dubuis Sympathie Chronograph (Ref. S37 56 5) is obtainable at a beginning bid of CHF 35,000 and at a set value of CHF 80,000. Extra particulars right here.

Cyril Brivet-Naudot Eccentricity Prototype

For those who’re a returning reader of MONOCHROME, the title Brivet-Naudot must be acquainted to you. And for its Geneva public sale in Could, Ineichen will supply a nice shock, a prototype of the primary watch made by the younger impartial watchmaker. The Eccentricity watch was conceived following his years on the well-known Lycée Edgar Faure in Morteau and is made nearly fully by hand or with conventional machines. Notably, it options an uncommon escapement, an adaptation of the free eccentric escapement developed by Louis Richard within the 18th century – itself based mostly on the ideas of the detent escapement. The look ahead to public sale is a prototype in metal with a sandblasted brass motion and dial.

This prototype instance of the Cyril Brivet-Naudot Eccentricity watch is obtainable with a beginning bid of CHF 70,000 or a set value of CHF 200,000. Extra particulars right here.

You may as well seek the advice of your complete catalogue of the Geneva Independents 2023 Ineichen sale right here.