124,500 CHF
Attributable to Louis Audemars, Brassus & Geneva, circa 1870. Exceptional and highly important 18K gold and enamel, astronomical orrery-type double-face watch with double time zone, calendar, phases of the moon, moon rise and set, and sunrise and sunset for the latitude of Geneva. Three-body, "bassine et filets", polished, band with pushpieces for manual settings of the calendar and astronomical indications. White enamel, to the right and left two eccentric radial Roman chapters with outer minute divisions, sunk centers with additional chapters: Arabic numerals to the right and Islamic to the left, sunk days of the week at the top, date concentric with subsidiary sunk seconds below, months on the outer periphery. Reverse: hinged, gold and enamel, cut semicircle at the top fitted with blued steel plate engraved with hours and seasonal corrections, inside the semicircle gold sun, blued steel and gold moon traveling across the skies against the engraved hours, gold stars on the blue enamel sky, the lower part at the sunrise engraved with the horses of Helios riding the Sun through the skies, to the right Ceres with cornucopia, gold stars above, fire painted in translucent red and yellow enamel below 43 mm (19’’’), frosted gilt, bar caliber with hanging barrel, 19 jewels, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, very interesting double setting mechanism for the calendar and the astronomical indications.Diam. 55
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
