9,375 CHF
AUDEMARS PIGUET THIN MINUTE-REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 13836. Made circa 1925. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Silver with applied yellow gold stylized Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 18''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. A similar example of an AUDEMERS PIGUET minute repeating pocket watch is illustrated in Audemars Piguet by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli, Martin K. Wehrli, first edition, p. 117, pl. 86.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
