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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 234

?Minute Repeating, Perpetual Calendar? Audemars Piguet & Co., Brassus, No. 37943, case No. 7878. Made for the Hispanic market in 1927. Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold, minute repeating, keyless, hunting cased pocket lever chronometer with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar and a heavy 18K gold marine-link chain. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, days of the week, date and seconds with lunar calendar, aperture for the moon-phases. Gold ?spade? hands. M. 42 mm., 19???, rhodiumplated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 53 mm.