Lot 405 · Important Watches: Part II
Villeret Tourbillon | A limited edition yellow gold flying tourbillon wristwatch with date and 8-day power reserve indication | Circa 1994
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- Estimate
- CHF 12,000–CHF 18,000 hammer ≈ $13,264–$19,896
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches: Part II, Geneva · 15 May 2024
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5212459
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Blancpain, Villeret Tourbillon | A limited edition yellow gold flying tourbillon wristwatch with date and 8-day power reserve indication | Circa 1994. Sotheby's, 15 May 2024, lot 405. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5212459.
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Blancpain, Villeret Tourbillon | A limited edition yellow gold flying tourbillon wristwatch with date and 8-day power reserve indication | Circa 1994. Sotheby's, 15 May 2024, lot 405. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5212459.
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.