The seller represents this timepiece as being in very good condition. It includes the boxes (inner and outer), additional items, and papers dated May 21st, 2024.

Red gold and forest green have no business being this composed. And yet here sits the Villeret Quantième Perpétuel, a perpetual calendar with moonphase held in a 40.3mm 18-carat red gold case, carrying one of watchmaking's most demanding complications without a hint of effort. The distinction between a complete calendar and a perpetual one is the difference between a watch that needs you and a watch that doesn't. The caliber 5954.4 accounts for the varying lengths of every month and every leap year automatically, requiring no manual correction until 2100. That accountability lives entirely beneath a sunburst green dial that earns its keep on pure beauty alone, shifting from deep canopy shadow at the edges to something warmer and more luminous at the center. The applied markers draw the eye inward. The peripheral date scale circles the dial with an architectural calm that lesser watches mistake for decoration. Under-lug correctors handle any adjustments with discretion, and the sapphire caseback opens onto finishing that justifies every dollar of the distance between this and the watch below it. The person who belongs with this watch understands that the highest complications exist not to impress, but to quietly remove friction from a life already worth living.