PERRELET, STAINLESS STEEL JUMPING HOUR WRISTWATCH, REF. A1037/7

CIRCA: 2024

CASE NO: A0576

CASE MATERIAL: Stainless steel

CASE DIAMETER: 40 mm.

DIAL: Black

MOVEMENT: Automatic CLASP: Stainless steel Perrelet double deployant clasp

BOX: Yes

PAPERS: Yes

WITH: Perrelet International Warranty dated 2024, product literature, presentation box and outer packaging

$3,000-5,000 | £2,400-3,900 | €2,900-4,800

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'Unworn' with its original factory stickers and offered 'full set', the present Perrelet timepiece features a 40 mm. stainless steel case with a black dial and jumping hours complication. 

Abraham-Louis Perrelet was born in Neuchacirctel, Switzerland and was a renowned Swiss horologist. Perrelet invented a self-winding mechanism in 1770 for pocket watches. Perrelet's watch worked on the same principle as a modern wristwatch and was designed to wind as the owner walked, by using an oscillating weight inside the large watch that moved up and down. The Geneva Society of Arts reported in 1776 that only fifteen minutes of walking was necessary to wind the Perrelet wristwatch sufficiently for eight days, and the following year reported that it was selling well. Perrelet is thus widely acknowledged as the inventor of the basic movement known today as an AUTOMATIC (self-winding) movement.

Since 2007, following the appointment of Marc Bernhardt as CEO of Perrelet, and under his direction the company has released a few highly regarded watches. These include watches with retrograde, jumping hour, and double-rotor complications. Perrelet is today perhaps most well-known for its Turbine watches featuring a spinning rotor visible through the dial side of the watch. 

The Brian LaViolette Scholarship Foundation would like to thank The Perrelet Watch Company for their generous donation