880,500 HKD
“Watch with 10 Complications” Audemars Piguet, Swiss, No. 33980. Made in 1963. Very elegant, important, and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold, slim, minute-repeating, keyless, astronomic dress watch, with phases and age of the moon, perpetual calendar, split second chronograph and 30-minute progressive register. Accompanied by an 18K gold serpentine chain and Extract from the Archives. Three-body, "bassine-lentil", solid, polished and brushed. Two-tone satiné silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute and chronograph divisions, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months of the leap-year cycle with outer 30-minute register, date and seconds concentric with lunar calendar with inner moon phase aperture. Gold "bâton" hands. 40 mm (18’’’), rhodium-plated, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring with swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band, split seconds chronograph with button on the winding crown and pushpiece in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman Notes Audemars Piguet Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22 respectively, under the name "Audemars Piguet, Manufacture d’Horlogerie". Jules Audemars was born in Le Brassus in 1851, where he was trained under master watchmakers of the area. After his apprenticeship, Jules
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
