845,000 HKD
Audemars Piguet, Brassus and Geneva, No. 36751, made for E. Gübelin in 1920.Very fine and rare Art Deco 18K white gold keyless astronomical perpetual calendar watch with phases of the moon, minute-repeating and split-seconds chronograph with 60-minute register. Three-piece, plain, trapezoidal band, faceted bezels. Silvered and matte, applied white gold Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions with five-minute/seconds Arabic figures, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds with phases of the moon aperture. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes The watch was chosen to represent the company's achievements in "Audemars Piguet" by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli, and Martin K. Wehrli, München, 1993, p. 156Audemars PiguetLe Brassus and Geneva. Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22, 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 recession which was then beginning, and eighteen months later he decided to return to Le Brassus, looking for a new situation mor
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-06-08
