Antiquorum announces its upcoming auction of Important Collectors’ Watches, Wristwatches & 
Clocks to be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Hong Kong on June 2.  This, first Hong Kong sale of the year comprise 329 diverse and important timepieces including magnificent watches from the 1770s representing the beginning of the production of watches made for the Chinese market by watchmakers such as  Piguet & Meylan, Lépine and Bovet through to modern complicated pieces such as a Patek Philippe Ref. 5004 and a diamond-set "Tourbillon Souverain àRemontoir d'Egalité avec Seconde Morte”, by F.P. Journe.

Lot 320
“Seconde Morte” F. P. Journe, "Invenit et Fecit”, Tourbillon Souverain àRemontoir d'Egalité avec Seconde Morte”, No. 005-TJ. Produced in a very limited number in 2005.
Very fine and rare, platinum and diamond (93 diamonds with a total weight of 21 cts.) gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, constant force “remontoir” with dead seconds, power reserve indication at 12, 18K pink gold movement and a platinum and diamond-set F. P. Journe deployant buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.
HK$ : 1,100,000 – 1,500,000 /
US$ 130,000 – 200,000 / E : 100,000 – 150,000

Timepieces with important provenances include a pocket watch made for Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., and a Bartens & Rice minute-repeater with split-second chronograph made for Robert Graves, the brother of Henry Graves, as well as a watch made for Oscar II, King of Sweden (1829-1907).
The catalogue also includes two Mystery clocks;   “Pendule Mystérieuse Modèle A” made by Cartier, Paris, in 1919 in 18K gold, onyx, rock crystal and diamond eight day-going as well as “The Leopard Mysterieuse” made by Graff in the 1980s. Moreover, a fabulous diamond set wrist-watch “Lady Kalla” by Vacheron Constantin from 1985 as well as several important watches by Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Breguet, and Omega are offered for sale in the auction.
In line with Antiquorum’s devotion to charitable causes, all proceeds from the last lot in the sale, the “Toy Watch” “Shanghai Toyurbillon” made in 2006, which is an amusing wristwatch with transparent “metalcrilato” case, will be donated to the Hong Kong Cancer Fund. 
Source: Antiquorum
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