Important Jewelry, Watches and Wristw...

Hong Kong, Furama Hotel, Jun 07, 1999

LOT 395

Audemars Piguet, Geneve, No. 14650, circa 1920. Very fine and rare 18K gold, keyless minute repeating dress watch with split seconds chronograph and progressive 30 minutes recorder with original fitted box.

HKD 100,000 - 125,000

USD 15,000 - 18,000

Sold: HKD 117,000

C.Three piece, massive, "variee " , polished and sating with bevelled bezels. Gold detachable cuvette. D. Silver satin g with applied gold Arabic numerals and indexes, outer minute and chronograph rings, sunk subsidiary seconds and minute register. Gold "batons " hands. M. 18"' , rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, Breguet balance spring with swan neck micrometric index. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Split seconds chronograph with visible work, operated by means of the winding crown with push piece in the band. Signed on the dial, case and movement. Diam. 48 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: *3

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Similar dress watches are illustrated in Audemars Piguet, by G. L. BRUNNER, Chr. PFEIFFER-BELLI and M. K. WEHRLI, 1993 Edition, p. 131.