Manufacturer: Daniel Roth Year: Circa 2005 Reference No: 247.X.40.161.CN.BA Case No: 14’646 Material: 18K yellow gold Calibre: Automatic, DR500, 31 jewels Bracelet/Strap: Crocodile Clasp/Buckle: 18K yellow gold Daniel Roth pin buckle Dimensions: 41mm length x 38mm width Signed: Case, dial, movement and buckle signed Accessories: Accompanied by Daniel Roth certificate dated 23 March 2005 stamped The Hour Glass LTD, additional unsigned leather strap and stainless steel buckle, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Catalogue Essay
- Daniel Roth recreated wristwatches directly inspired by Abraham-Louis Breguet’s pocket watches, producing some of the first modern perpetual calendar and tourbillon wristwatches. Roth left Breguet in 1987 to start his own brand in 1988.
- He immediately created a personal design language, the most obvious being the unusual shape of his watches that later came to be defined as an ellipsocurvex, hands with pointed tips and dials with a horizontal guilloché pattern. Today, while the brand is celebrated under LVMH’s creative direction, Roth continues his passion together with his family endeavour, Jean Daniel Nicolas – Jean being Roth’s son and Nicolas, Roth’s spouse.
- Roth always worked with the greatest movement manufacturers of his time and the present chronograph houses a Zenith El Primero movement dubbed the DR500.
- The present lot with the double-ellipse case fitted with bright silver pinstriped guilloché dial, blued steel hands, brushed chapter ring and Roman numerals. Presented in excellent overall condition, the chronograph is also accompanied by its certificate and presentation box.