696,000 HKD
Louis Audemars Russian Imperial Presentation Watch with 7 Complications Louis Audemars, Brassus & Geneva, No. 14062. Made for Russian Imperial presentation, circa 1895. Extremely fine and exceptional, large, 18K gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, hunting-cased, pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, special patented split-seconds chronograph and antimagnetic escapement. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, the front cover decorated with the Russian Imperial arms in black, blue and red champlevé enamel and set with rose-cut diamonds, gold levers for calendar setting protruding from under the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds divided into fifths, five-minute/ seconds red Arabic numerals, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four year leap cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and lunar calendar. Blued steel spade hands. Notes The present watch is one of the finest and most complicated made for presentation by the Czar. It is extremely highly finished and very complicated for a presentation watch and must therefore have been intended for a very important recipient. The watch has a balance and spring which were made to be antimagnetic, gold setting levers, and a patented split-seconds chronograph mechanism. It is also, unusually, fully signed by Louis Audemars. The special split-se
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-25
