124,500 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Swiss, No. 33980, circa 1960. Very elegant and extremely rare, 18K gold, slim, minute-repeating, keyless astronomic dress watch, with phases and age of the moon, perpetual calendar, split second chronograph and 30-minute register. Accompanied by an 18K gold serpentine chain. Three-body, "bassine-lentil", solid, polished. Satiné silver with applied gold baton indexes, outer minute and chronograph rings, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months of the leap-year cycle with outer minute register, dates and seconds with inner moon phase aperture. Gold "bâton" hands. 40 mm (18’’’), rhodium-plated with gold wheel train, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic balance, 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring with swan-neck micrometer regulator. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Split seconds chronograph with button on the winding crown and pushpiece in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement. Diam. 49 mm. Notes Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22, respectively, under the name "Audemars Piguet, Manufacture d’Horlogerie". Jules Audemars was born in Le Brassus in 1851, where he was trained as a watchmaker by master watchmakers of the area. After his apprenticeship, Jules Audemars began work as a "repasseur" until 1874, then settling in Gimel and opening a small business next to his workshop. He did not obtain the success he was hoping for, probably due to the
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
