256,500 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 40977. Retailed by Gübelin, Lucerne, made in 1929. Extremely fine and probably unique, square, minute-repeating, platinum gentleman's wristwatch. massive, polished, satined. mat silver with applied platinum indexes + auxiliary seconds dial. "Bâton" blued steel hands. Notes The shape of this watch is strongly inpsired by the model "Santos" which was highly fashionable at that time. This minute repeating movement of 9"' is the smallest and flatest ever produced in the world known today.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-04-10