13,800 CHF
Heures Sautantes Audemars, Piguet & Co, Brassus & Genève, No. 19860. Made in 1917. Very fine and rare, thin, 18K yellow gold, keyless, digital jumphour dress watch. Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, the back with engraved Oriental-style monogram “PF”. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte champagne, aperture for Arabic jump hour numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel lozenge hand. 37 mm.,16 ½’’’, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43.5 mm. Notes An identical watch with the next ascending number, 19861, was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, on October 14, 2007, lot 32, for 16,520 Swiss Francs. A similar pocket watch is illustrated in "Audemars Piguet" by L. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli, and M.K. Wehrli, p. 83.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
