Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
New York, Mar 10, 2011
LOT 168
Audemars Piguet - Split-Second Chronograph Minute-Repeater - Retailed by Cartier Audemars Piguet & Co, Brassus & Geneva, No. 14651. Made circa 1915. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and progressive 30-minute register.
USD 35,000 - 45,000
CHF 35,000 - 45,000 / EUR 25,000 - 33,000
C. Four-body, ?demi bassine,? solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. Silver with applied radial yellow gold Arabic numerals and pyramid indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and progressive 30-minute register. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 17???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 3 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 2* |
Very good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |