Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 317

?Yellow Gold Minute-Repeating? Audemars Frères, Switzerland, case No. 34102. Made circa 1920. Fine, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", solid, polished, monogrammed front cover, gold hinged cuvette. D. Double-sunk white enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track with red Arabic 5-minute markers, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 18''', rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 31 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 5 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.