Thematic Auction in Geneva:The Evolut...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 413

Audemars Piguet, Genève "Quantième perpetuel automatique No 144", No. 322045, case No. 76028, made in 1989.Very fine and very rare astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold mid-size wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases.

CHF 12,000 - 15,000

EUR 8,000 - 10,000

Sold: CHF 12,650

C. two-body solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, curved lugs. D. white with applied gold baton indexes, auxiliary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, sector graduated for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. "Bâton" yellow gold hands. M. Cal. 2132 rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 22 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-sprig, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 30 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

Audemars Piguet launched its first wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases in 1950.In 1978, the model presented above was presented in various dimensions as the thinnest self-winding, perpetual calendar with moon phases wristwatch ever made.Similar watches are published is published in Audemars Piguet, by G. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli and M. K. Wehrli, 1993, p. 272.