141,000 CHF
“Thin, with 9 Complications” Audemars Piguet, No. 13929, case No. 12590. Made for E. Gübelin, Lucerne, circa 1912. Very fine and extremely rare, thin and elegant, Art Deco, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold and enamel keyless dress watch with perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, progressive 60-minute register, moon phases and lunar calendar. Three-body, “bassine et filet”, brushed, the bezels, pendant and bow decorated with a black champlevé enamel Greek-key pattern, start/stop button in the crown, split-seconds button in the band at 11 o’clock. Brushed silver with 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, moonphase aperture with seconds and lunar calendar. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Cal. SMCCRQV, 18’’’, rhodium-plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 35 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, 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 E. Gübelin. Diam. 49 mm. Notes The complicated watches of Audemars Piguet were highly prized by companies such as Gübelin because their movements were th
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
