184,000 HKD
Audemars Piguet, Brassus and Geneva, retailed by Weill & Harburg, London as No. 8279. London hallmarks for 1923-4. Extremely fine and rare, heavy, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless astronomical minute-repeating watch with perpetual calendar, phases of the moon, and chronograph. Four-body, polished, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions with fiveminute/seconds Arabic figures, four sunk subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle, and subsidiaryseconds with phases of the moon aperture with moon age. Blued steel “spade” hands. Notes Audemars Piguet Le Brassus and Geneva. Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22, under the name “Audemars Piguet, Manufacture d’Horlogerie”. Jules Audemars was born in Le Brassus in 1851, where he was trained as a watchmaker by master watchmakers of the area. After his apprenticeship, Jules Audemars began work as a “repasseur” until 1874, then settling in Gimel and opening a small business next to his workshop. He did not obtain the success he was hoping for, probably due to the recession which was then beginning, and eighteen months later he decided to return to Le Brassus, looking for a new situation more in keeping with his exceptional watchmaking skill. Edward Auguste Piguet, born two years after Jules Audemars, received a similar education. Edward completed his formation as a“repasseur” at Charles Capt. The two me
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
