TIMEPIECES FOR MD CHARITY AUCTION

Watchmakers create timepieces for charity auction

July 19, 2007

Monte Carlo, Monaco—The world's top watchmakers will create new watches for an Antiquorum auction that will benefit muscular dystrophy research.

As part of the "Only Watch 2007" event, 35 of the world's top timepiece brands will donate a unique watch or a first in a series for an auction that will take place on Sept. 20 at the Monaco Yacht Show.The auction will benefit research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The first such auction, held in September 2005, raised $2.6 million.

Watches by Girard-Perregaux (above) and

De Bethune (below) will be part of

"Only Watch 2007," an auction to benefit

Muscular Dystrophy research.

Among the one-of-a-kind pieces that will be available at the auction are watches by Blancpain, Daniel Roth, De Bethune, delaCour, DeWitt and Jean-Michel Wimotte, Franck Muller, Frederique Constant, Gerald Charles, Girard-Perregaux, Glashutte, Hublot, Instrument et Mesures de Temps, IWC, Jacquet Dorz, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Louis Vuitton, Officine Panerai, Omega, Patek Philippe, Piaget, Pierre Kunz, Richard Mille and Philippe Starck, Rodolphe, Swatch, Vacheron Constantin, Van Cleef and Arpels and Zenith.