201,250 HKD
Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 39581, made for Boucheron in 1928. Very fine and very rare 18K white gold keyless, digital jump-hour, Art Deco dress watch with digital calendar. Three-piece, brushed front and back, polished bezels. Apertures in the front cover for Arabic hours, minutes, and days of the week, date and months. 40 mm (18’’’), cal QG, rhodium-plated, “fausses-côtes” decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with flat balance-spring. Signed on the front cover, same number punched on the case and movement.Diam. 47 mm. Notes Audemars Piguet made few digital pocket watches like this one. One, which the company produced for Cartier, with a serial number very close to our watch (39585), is illustrated in “Audemars Piguet” by Gisbert Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli, and Martin K. Wehrli, München, 1993, p. 134.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
