Lot no.

Description

Estimated Price
(HK$)

Picture

74

MP Black Paint Serial no.132, 1956
Initially, Leica early MP was custom-made for a very few professional photographers and reporters in 1957. With Leicavit, the user can quickly shoot up to two frames per second. Around 130 units of it were produced. This camera is made in original black paint. The serial number engraved at the bottom matches that of the body. It comes with Summicron-M 2/5cm (#1474804) Black Paint for MP and lens cap, extremely rare.

$3,000,000 to
$4,000,000

59

M3 Betriebsk “UR-M5” Prototype Serial no. M3 – 1209

Leitz Wetzlar rare original factory prototype M-camera with built-in TTL light meter. This camera represents one of the first units of prototyping of a built-in meter arm into Leica-M". Only a handful of those experimental units were completed, before the project turned into the M4/M5 development. As a set, complete with external display instrument built on basis of a Leicameter-MR, which connects to the camera with a plug and shows the value given from the camera´s built-in meter. The camera is in nice conditions. This camera set has been authenticated by Lars Netopil. This comes with a meter (MR) and body cap, in excellent condition. Extremely rare.

$600,000
to
$800,000

210

M7 "Handmade titanium camera" Prototype , 2002

Original factory prototype from the project "handmade titanium camera", which was made as a one of a kind model for Sheikh Saud Al-Thani of Qatar in the year of 2002. While the outer parts of the final version of this camera were in all-titanium, including the body cover , the unit here has a black leather body cover and some black knobs and levers, which let it look a bit like a "titanium Panda" version. The set finally delivered contained five different lenses, all with solid titanium mounts. The camera here comes with a later solid titanium mount version of the Summilux-M 1.4/50 ASPH of 2004 (from "50 years of Leica M"edition). This camera and lens have been authenticated by Lars Netopil.

$600,000
 to
$800,000

184

IIIf Black Paint“Swedish Military” Serial no.822990, 1956

This IIIf was specially made for the Swedish national army in 1956. It can withstand very extreme weather conditions in Sweden and only 100 units were produced. The camera and lens are original, complete with matching black paint Elmar 3.5/5cm (#1427190) and early A36 Black Paint lens cap, in new condition, very rare. This camera has been authenticated by Lars Netopil.

$600,000
to
$800,000

197

M6 with Summilux-M 1.4/35mm Titanium Camera Set
Serial no.1900000, 1993
A round numbers of M6 Titanium (#1900000) with M 1.4/35mm Titanium lens (#3600000) have never been seen among the special Edition cameras. These special editions are usually commemorative sets made for special clients. For example, Leica IIIf (#500000) dedicated to Ernst Leitz II; M3 (#800000) dedicated to the World War II West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer in 1956. In addition, these round numbers were assigned to particular camera models as well. For example, #3000000 was assigned to M7 Titanium Camera set to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Leica M series.This camera body decorated with lizard skin leather, in brand new condition.

$450,000  to
$600,000

185

M3 Olive Bundeseigentum Military Camera Set
Serial no.1100412, 1964
Bundeseigentum refers to "Property of Federal German Government" in English. In the record, this model was produced in 1957-1968 which batch only 50 units were produced, it becomes extremely rare. The rear of top plate engraved "Bundeseigentum", comes with Elmar-M 2.8/50mm Chrome (#1727638), ITOOY hood with Summaron-M 2.8/35mm Chrome (#2050525), Tele-Elmar-M 4/135mm in Black (#2046215) with a light meter. They all engraved special serial no. This lot also comes with goggles and olive leather lens case, an olive ever-ready leather case, filter and green leather case. Extremely rare.

$400,000
to
$600,000

203

M6 Platinum 150 Jahre Optik Set Serial no.2490056(1905), 1996
In 1999, in order to commemorate the 150^th Anniversary of Wetzlar Optischen Institute, Leica launched 30 sets of M6 Platinum 150 Jahre Optik with with Summicron-M 2/50mm (1880-1909), body decorated with lizard skin, platinum plate finished. The memorial year of this set is 1905, it comes with Summilux-M 2/50mm lens (150 Jahre Optik 1905). This set is completely brand new, it comes with outer box, wooden box, front and rear lens caps, built-in hood, strap, body cap, lens cloth and papers, very precious.

$180,000  to
$250,000

157

Summilux-M 1.4/50mm Black Paint Serial no.1644846, 1958

This lens belongs to the first version of Summilux-M 1.4/50mm Black Paint, with brass mounting bayonet, only very small numbers of them were produced, extremely rare. It comes with keeper and front lens cap, clear lens, in like new condition and good working order.

$180,000  to
$240,000