81,250 CHF
AUDEMARS PIGUET WATCH WITH 9 COMPLICATIONS ONE OF A SPECIAL SERIES OF COMPLICATED WATCHES FOR THE GERMAN MARKET Audemars Piguet & Co. , No. 48355. Made for Dürrstein & Co., Dresden, circa 1900. Extremely fine and important, large, heavy 18K rose gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with split-seconds Chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and phases of the moon. Accompanied by a period box. Four-body, "Louis XV", massive, polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram, push button for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph at 1, for the split-seconds and rejoin at 11. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. Seven-piece white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track with fifths of a second divisions and red Arabic five second/minute numerals, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication and instantaneous 30-minute register, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon. Pink gold Louis XV hands. 21''', matte gilt, 31 jewels, calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case and movement numbered. Notes DIAM. 59 mm. This large and extremely hi
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10
