129,500 CHF
“Watch with 10 Complications” Audemars Piguet & Co. , Swiss, No. 30608. Made circa 1912. Very elegant, important, and extremely rare, thin, 18K yellow gold and platinum, minute-repeating, keyless dress watch with perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, 60-minute progressive register, phases and age of the moon. Three-body, “bassine et filet”, polished and brushed, platinum bezels and bow, yellow gold band and pendant, co-axial start/stop/return-to-zero button in the crown, split-seconds button in the band at 11 o’clock. Matte silver with applied upright Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle concentric with the 60-minute progressive register, date and days of the week, moon phase aperture with seconds and lunar calendar. Platinum “cathedrale” hands. Cal. 18’’’, rhodium-plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 35 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible steel chronograph work, repeating on two gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. From “The Collection” Notes Audemars Piguet Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22 respectively, under the name "Audema
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
