GREUBEL FORSEY, GMT SPORT EARTH RED, A UNIQUE TITANIUM WORLD TIME TOURBILLON WRISTWATCH
CASE NUMBER: 04 882, 1/1
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Price Realised USD 504,000
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USD 400,000 - USD 600,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, any applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see the Conditions of Sale for full details.
Closed: 29 Mar 2022
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GREUBEL FORSEY, GMT SPORT EARTH RED, A UNIQUE TITANIUM WORLD TIME TOURBILLON WRISTWATCH
The GMT Sport Earth was avant-garde indie brand Greubel Forsey’s first sports watch. The watch featured a new ovoid case with integrated lugs and a sporty rubber strap that fit any wrist.
The open-worked dial is a theatre of haute horology – what with suspended bridges and floating dials in three dimensions. A suspended arch centre bridge holds the gear train that follows the curve of the bridge that drives the hours and minutes hand. An auxiliary dial between 10 and 11 o’clock combines the small seconds on a large rotating disc, and the second time zone display with a hand.
The trademark inclined tourbillon completes a rotation every 24 seconds and is placed at 1 o’ clock. The tourbillon cage alone has 88 components but weighs only 0.38 grams thanks to light alloy pillars and titanium bridges.
A rotating globe as seen from above the North Pole and rotating around its axis in real time. It is surrounded by a sapphire crystal ring with 24-hour divisions; where the wearer can read local time for all longitudes, including the day / night indicator (light zone / dark zone). The caseback features a sapphire cities disc to give UTC Universal and Summer Time for 24 cities in major time zones.
The present timepiece (with red accents and strap) is a unique piece 1/1 as confirmed by the Certificate of Authenticity that accompanies it.
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OVERALL CONDITION: The watch is in excellent condition. Like new
CASE: The case is in excellent condition. Like new.
DIAL: The dial is nice, clean, and original. All the functions are work perfectly.
MOVEMENT: Ticking at the time of cataloguing. All the functions of calendar and chronograph work perfectly
BUCKLE: The Greubel Forsey folding clasp in like new condition
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Lot 17Sale 21092
CASE NUMBER: 04 882, 1/1GREUBEL FORSEY, GMT SPORT EARTH RED, A UNIQUE TITANIUM WORLD TIME TOURBILLON WRISTWATCH Estimate: USD 400,000 - 600,000
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