FABERGÉ
WINTER 

Fabergé is proud to introduce this year’s custom built Lady Compliquée Winter Only Watch - a one-off, tailor made take on Fabergé’s award winning Lady Compliquée timepiece created for the Only Watch biennial charity auction to raise funds for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
FABERGÉ
WINTER 

Fabergé is proud to introduce this year’s custom built Lady Compliquée Winter Only Watch - a one-off, tailor made take on Fabergé’s award winning Lady Compliquée timepiece created for the Only Watch biennial charity auction to raise funds for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
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FABERGÉWINTER Fabergé is proud to introduce this year’s custom built Lady Compliquée Winter Only Watch - a one-off, tailor made take on Fabergé’s award winning Lady Compliquée timepiece created for the Only Watch biennial charity auction to raise funds for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

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FABERGÉ
WINTER

Fabergé is proud to introduce this year’s custom built Lady Compliquée Winter Only Watch - a one-off, tailor made take on Fabergé’s award winning Lady Compliquée timepiece created for the Only Watch biennial charity auction to raise funds for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Model name: WINTER 2504 1/1
Case: Platinum case, 38mm, sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment, Gem-set bezel: 46 white round diamonds (1.585 carats) and 8 blue round sapphires (0.245 carats), Platinum crown
Dial: Mother-of-pearl marquetry dial set with 5 diamonds (0.0105 carats) White mother-of-pearl rotating hour ring White mother-of-pearl minute-track, printed "create beauty to do good"
Calibre: Manually-wound 6901
Diameter: 32.7 mm (14 1/2 lines)
Thickness: 3.58 mm
Number of jewels: 38
Number of components: 210
Power reserve: 50 hours
Cadence of balance: 21,600 vibrations/hour
Special decoration on ratchet wheel
Bracelet: Alligator strap
Dimensions: Diameter: 38 mm
Specificities: Fabergé creates a unique, special edition Lady Compliquée timepiece to be auctioned for the Only Watch charity
Special Notice
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country. Many of the watches offered for sale in this catalogue are pictured with straps made of endangered or protected animal materials such as alligator or crocodile. These endangered species straps are shown for display purposes only and are not for sale. Christie’s will remove and retain the strap prior to shipment from the sale site. At some sale sites, Christie’s may, at its discretion, make the displayed endangered species strap available to the buyer of the lot free of charge if collected in person from the sale site within 1 year of the date of the sale. Please check with the department for details on a particular lot.

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Lot Essay

This specially created Lady Compliquée timepiece features a handcrafted sky-blue lacquer fan that opens to form a carpet of frost covering a white mother of pearl mosaic dial. Fabergé workmasters have added blue sapphires to the bezel with four sapphires at the crown - to help the owner read the time using the Lady Compliquée’s highly praised movement. The watch face bears the inspiring message "create beauty to do good" hand carved above the spreading blades.

Beneath the watch, a rounded sapphire crystal case reveals the details of the unrivalled Lady Compliquée movement, with delicate lines of frozen ice decorating the ratchet wheel, while ice blue screws hold everything in its place.

The original Lady Compliquée was the first new timepiece collection created by Aurélie Picaud, Fabergé’s respected timepieces director, when she was appointed in 2013. She searched the archives and discovered a jewel and crystal Peacock egg made by Peter Carl Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II in 1908, with a peacock that emerged from a translucent shell as the egg opened.

Inspired by this, Fabergé developed – with Geneva based Agenhor Manufacture - an entirely new movement where peacock feathers open and close as the minutes move steadily on, offering a whole new way to view the time. The Lady Compliquée Winter timepiece pays homage to Peter Carl Fabergé’s famous Winter Egg of 1913.

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