Lot 14
FREDERIQUE CONSTANT x CHRISTIAAN VAN DER KLAAUW
TOURBILLON PLANETARIUM ONLY WATCH 2023
An exclusive collaboration resulting in a unique astronomical timepiece combining the world's smallest planetarium with a high-end Manufacture tourbillon.
Description
Frederique Constant and Christiaan van der Klaauw, both Dutch-founded and led watchmaking brands, unveil a unique creation that combines their respective knowhow for the very first time. Frederique Constant has contributed its Manufacture Tourbillon, designed, decorated, and hand-assembled in its Geneva workshops, together with a 42mm Classic case developed especially for the occasion. The same piece features the world’s smallest planetarium from Christiaan van der Klaauw, the leading specialist in astronomical complications, showing six planets orbiting the Sun in real time.
This exclusive timepiece features a cosmic dial made of aventurine, and a movement that’s been hand-finished using traditional tools and instruments by Frederique Constant’s watchmakers. All the components have been decorated on both sides – even those that aren’t visible. And for what can be seen, Frederique Constant has worked on even the tiniest details.
Specifications
Model name:
Tourbillon Planetarium Only Watch 2023
Ref: FC-9880W4HPT
Case:
Platinum case, 42mm, with a scratch-resistant and anti-reflective convex sapphire crystal — Open caseback — Water-resistant up to 3 ATM
Dial:
Blue aventurine — Planetarium at 12 o'clock — Date and month at 9 o'clock — 60 seconds tourbillon at 6 o'clock, silver colour seconds hand — Applied silver diamond cut indexes — Hand-polished silver colour hour, minute, day and date hands
Calibre:
FC-988 in-house automatic caliber — In-house hand-made decorations: chamfering, hammering, circular graining, flanks drawing, mirror polishing, engraved automatic bridge — Silicon escapement wheel and anchor — Power reserve: 38 hours — 28,800 vibrations/hour — 47 jewels
Bracelet:
Blue alligator leather strap with matt finishing— Folding buckle
Dimensions:
Diameter: 42mm
Height: 13.38mm
Specificities:
The heliocentric system brings together six moving discs: Mercury (88 days), Venus (225 days), Earth (365 days), Mars (687 days), Jupiter (12 years) and Saturn (29 years), surrounded by the relevant zodiac signs for each sector, calibrated with respect to the Earth’s relative position.
*This lot will be available to the buyer in December 2024.
The brands
Frederique Constant x Christiaan van der Klaauw
Frederique Constant is a Swiss watchmaking manufacture located in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1988, it offers quality Swiss Made watches at competitive prices. The Maison designs, develops and assembles mechanical timepieces (30 Manufacture calibres including the Tourbillon, the Perpetual Calendar, the Flyback Chronograph and the Monolithic), as well as quartz and connected calibres.
Astronomy, time in its purest form is the source of inspiration for the most famous watch atelier in the Netherlands. Christiaan van der Klaauw, an honorary member of the prestigious AHCI, founded the company - Christiaan van der Klaauw Astronomical Watches - in 1974. Christiaan van der Klaauw Astronomical Watches is the only atelier in the world that is completely devoted to the design and the production of exclusive, hand-made astronomical watches.