45,600 CHF
For Bulgari Audemars Piguet, Genève, retailed by Bulgari, No. 45598. Made in 1941. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, registers and tachometer. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs. Champagne with applied pink gold conical indexes and Arabic 12, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Gold baton hands. 13’’’ VZAH, rhodiumplated, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes similar watch is illustrated in "Audemars Piguet" by L. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli, and M.K. Wehrli, p. 242.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
