25,960 CHF
“Minute Repeater & Split- Seconds Chronograph” Audemars Piguet, No. 5385. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register. Four-body, “bassine”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial black Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of seconds divisions, red Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6, 30-minute register at 12 o’clock. Blued steel “Spade” hands. 37 mm. (16’’’), rhodium-plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, adjusted cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, chronograph and split-seconds mechanisms set on the back plate, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and case signed. Diam. 48 mm. Notes A similar watch is illustrated and described in “Audemars Piguet”, by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, 1993,p. 131.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
