$80,500
Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 46931. Produced in 1943. Extremely fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, register, tachometer, triple date and moon phases. Accompanied by an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, dedicated case back, rounded bezel, teardrop lugs, back engraved "Ted Atkinson for Unselfish service, jockey’s Guild. Sept. 26 1959". Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary sunk dials for the 30-minute register and the months at 3, for the seconds and the days of the week at 9, the days of the month at 12, sector for the lunar calendar and aperture for the moon phases at 6, outer tachometer graduation. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. Notes For a note on Audemars Piguet, see lot 333 A similar watch is published in "Audemars Piguet" by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, p. 247. It bears the number 46932, the number immediately following that of the present watch.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-09-22
