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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 405

Audemars Piguet, Swiss, No. 14828, completed for Gübelin, Lucern, circa 1925.Very elegant and extremely rare, 18K gold and enamel, very slim , minute repeating, keyless Art Deco, moon phase, astronomical, dress-watch with perpetual calendar, split second chronograph and progressive 60 minute recorder.

C. two-body, solid, ?demi-bassine?, polished and satiné, the bezels, pendant and bow with a black champlevé enamelled decoration in a Greek key pattern. D. Satiné silver with Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph rings, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months for the leap-year cycle with outer minutes register, dates and seconds with inner moon phase aperture. Blued steel Breguet hands.M. 18???, rhodium plated with gold wheel train,35 jewels, straihgt line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring with swan neck micrometric index. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Split seconds chronograph with button on the winding crown and push piece in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 49 mm.