592,000 HKD
Audemars Piguet, Geneve, No. 33811, circa 1925. Very fine and rare 18K gold, moon phase, astronomical, keyless, minute repeating dress watch with perpetual calendar, split seconds chronograph and progressive 30 minutes recorder, with original fitted box. Three piece, massive, "variee ", polished and satin& with bevelled bezels. Silver satin& with applied gold indexes, outer minute and chronograph rings, sunk 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 "batons" hands. Notes For a triple complication, the movement of this watch is extremely thin and is certainly among theslimcst made at the time. Similar triple complication dress watches are illustrated in Audemars Piguel,l by G. L. BRUNNER, Chr. PFEIFFER-BELLI and M. K.WEnta.1,1993 Edition, pp. 153-156.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-06-07