96,760 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 46501, made circa 1943. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers and tachometer. Three-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs. Rose, with applied gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, 1/5TH second and outermost blue tachometer graduations. Yellow gold “baton” hands. 13’’’, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 11,7 mm. From “The Collection” Notes Similar watches are published in “Audemars Piguet”, by G. L. Brunner, Chr. Pfeiffer-Belli and M. K. Wehrli, 1993, pp. 242-243 and 252-253. Although slightly larger than the models produced by other prestigious manufacturers, (33/34 mm. for Patek Philippe, and 34/35 mm. for Vacheron & Constantin), the 36 mm. Audemars Piguet chronograph is considered among one of the most elegant and refined.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
