De Bethune - The New York Watch Auction: EIGHT New York Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Manufacturer: De Bethune
    Year: Circa 2004
    Reference No: DB15RT
    Case No: No. 007
    Material: 18K pink gold
    Calibre: Manual, cal. DB2004, 27 jewels
    Bracelet/Strap: Alligator
    Clasp/Buckle: 18K pink gold De Bethune buckle
    Dimensions: 43mm Diameter
    Signed: Case, dial, movement, strap, and buckle signed.
    Accessories: Accompanied by undated De Bethune Certificate of Authenticity, instruction manual, envelope, setting pin, slipcloth, fitted presentation box, and outer box. Further accompanied by De Bethune Certificate of Origin.

  • Catalogue Essay

    Horological maestro Denis Flageollet teamed up with collector extraordinaire David Zanetta in 2002 to create the independent watchmaking tour-de-force that is De Bethune, striving to implement avant-garde designs rooted in traditional watchmaking principals. In the two decades since they began to make watches together, they have developed over thirty in-house movements and a cavalcade of technical innovations.

    First introduced to the market in 2003, the De Bethune DB15 Perpetual Calendar is a highly legible, clean, delicate, and elegant perpetual calendar display combining De Bethune’s signature design cues for the dial and technically evolved movement elements. It was the first of De Bethune’s calibres with the now-ubiquitous spherical moonphase indicator. Considered a “transitional” model, the DB15RT featured a completely novel and re-worked movement, the caliber DB2004, a dial evocative of the contemporary offerings of the brand, but all in the smaller case size and early ogival lugs.

    The importance of such a pivotal watch in the evolution of De Bethune as one of the foremost producers of high-end independent watches cannot be understated. In unworn, "new old stock" condition, and with a special “007” serial number and still fitted with its original factory caseback sticker, the DB15RT offered here comes with its original certificate of authenticity and presentation accessories.

Σ40

Ref. DB15RT
A "new old stock", important, and innovative pink gold perpetual calendar wristwatch with spherical moonphase display, guarantee, and presentation box, numbered 007

Circa 2004
43mm Diameter
Case, dial, movement, strap, and buckle signed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 50,000 
CHF22,500-45,000
€23,100-46,200
HK$195,000-391,000
S$33,600-67,200

Sold for $101,600

Contact Specialist

Paul Boutros
Head of Watches, Americas
+1 (212) 940-1293
WatchesNY@Phillips.com
 
Isabella Proia
Head of Sale, New York
+1 (212) 940 1285
iproia@phillips.com

The New York Watch Auction: EIGHT

New York Auction 10 - 11 June 2023