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  • 製造商: Philippe Dufour
    年份: 2020
    機芯編號: 204
    型號名稱: Simplicity
    材料: 18K white gold
    機芯: Manual, inhouse, 21 jewels
    錶帶/ 錶鏈: Leather
    錶扣: 18K white gold Philippe Dufour pin buckle
    尺寸: 37mm Diameter
    簽名: Case, dial, movement and buckle signed
    配件: Accompanied by fitted wooden box, International Guarantee and Certificate of Origin dated 2020 and outer packaging.
    文學: Philippe Dufour is prominently featured in Twelve Faces of Time: Horological Virtuosos by Elisabeth Doerr and Ralph Baumgarten pp. 10-25 and in Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking by Michael Clerizo pp. 72-91.

  • 圖錄文章

    Rarely has a watchmaker singlehandedly so well represented a horological genre that has gone from being reserved for the cognoscenti, to a category that is boxing in the same heavyweight league as Philippe Dufour has.

    Philippe Dufour exemplifies what we have collectively come to imagine as the typical Swiss watchmaker: a pipe-smoking solitary figure working in a small workshop in the Swiss Alps handmaking watches of incomparable beauty and quality infused with passion and love.

    Philippe Dufour is all of the above and much more. An extremely talented and passionate watchmaker, he is an ardent defender of traditional watchmaking that he considers a dying art. A true living legend, his watches are considered masterpieces that collectors jealously treasure, making them extremely difficult to obtain.

    The Simplicity was first presented in 2000 and was a break away from Dufour’s wonderfully complex mechanisms. With this model, he wanted to demonstrate his unrivalled finishing techniques and to prove that simple could also mean sophisticated. Each watch, like all his other creations, was to be hand-finished and assembled by the master himself.

    The Simplicity was originally presented in a 34 mm case and a larger 37 mm case was offered rapidly after. It was made in pink gold, white gold or platinum with a unique steel version known. Dufour also created two dial types, one in white lacquer and the other with a hand-guilloché dial.

    The world’s greatest collectors recognized a modern masterpiece and icon, and orders flooded in rapidly. Dufour’s quota of movements was rapidly reached, and those lucky enough to have been able to order a Simplicity had to wait long years before delivery. Everybody else had to wait for a piece to appear on the secondary market.

    The present fresh to the market Simplicity features two rarer traits, first it is in white gold, a metal rarely seen for this model as it seems that collectors ordered mainly the platinum and pink gold examples.

    Furthermore, the dial is slate grey with full Breguet numerals as opposed to the regular Arabic numerals at 3,9 and 12 o’clock. Finally, the numerals and the hands are pink gold whereas normally the color matches the case. These elements lead us to believe that the present Simplicity n° 204 is truly unique.

  • 藝術家簡介

    Philippe Dufour

    Swiss • 1989

    Philippe Dufour is a modern master creating some of the most coveted timepieces available today. His watches feature clean, classic lines fitted with high-grade in-house movements and stunning finish and polish. His Simplicity model is near-perfect hand craftsmanship, produced entirely in a traditional manner without the use of modern industrial tools. Over a 12-year period he created approximately 200 examples often customized to the client's wishes. Today it is considered one of the finest mechanical time-only timepieces produced. Also highly sought-after is the Duality, a highly complicated masterpiece made in only 9 examples. Dufour worked for some of the top names in watch manufacturing including Jaeger-LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet and Gerald Genta. In 1978, he opened his own workshop creating all his own parts. He is both the man and the brand, and by keeping his production numbers limited, Dufour maintains absolute control over quality and is therefore considered one of the most important independent watchmakers today.

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2020
37mm Diameter
Case, dial, movement and buckle signed

估價
CHF350,000 - 700,000 
€360,000-721,000
$350,000-701,000

成交價CHF1,022,200

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The Geneva Watch Auction: XVI

日內瓦拍賣 2022年11月5至6日