Important Watches and Wristwatches
St-moritz, Badrutt's Palace Hotel, Feb 25, 1990
LOT 36
Anonymous (Probably Audemars Piguet) Swiss, No 13457, circa 1915
CHF 50,000 - 60,000
Sold: CHF 86,000
Extremely fine and rare very flat platinum moon phase astronomical keyless dress watch with a digital perpetual calendar. Three piece "variée", "satinée" and polished case, the back engraved with a marine anchor. Mat silver dial with an offset small Arabic chapter for the hours and minutes, symetrical subsidiary dial for the dates, very small dial for the leap year cycle, apertures for the phases of the moon, the days of the week and the months. Outer Arabic second ring. Blued steel Breguet hand. Very fine rhodium plated 16.5''' movement " fausse-côtes" decoration. 18 jewels. straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance. Breguet balance spring. In very good condition. Diam. 50 mm.
