The Sandberg Watch Collection: Geneva, March 31st and April 1st, 2001

Antiquorum's auction season of 2001 starts with the prestigious watch collection of Lord Sandberg, which will take place on March 31st and April 1st, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Hotel Richemond. Prior to the auction, the collection will go on a world tour with exhibitions in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Geneva.

The “Sandberg Watch Collection” is a unique collection of 433 timepieces, one of the most outstanding still in private hands. With a global value of about 15 million Swiss Francs, it comprises some of the world's most remarkable enameled watches and musical watches with automaton scenes, often produced for the Chinese market, together with singing bird boxes, erotic watches and exquisite form watches.

Spanning the years 1500s to 1900s, “The Sandberg Watch Collection” includes exceptional watches from the 16th and 17th centuries, and rare watches of major importance for their technical interest, such as an early self-winding “perpÉtuelle” pocket watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, circa 1815, and an astronomical watch, made for nautical use, circa 1785, by the English watchmaker George Margetts.

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