Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 360

AUDEMARS FRÈRES MINUTE REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Audemars Frères, Geneva, No. 285391. Made circa 1905. Fine, 14K pink gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Accompanied by an associated 14K pink gold chain.

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, engine-turned covers, button at 2 for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with Prize Medals, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. 47 mm, frosted gilt, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button on the band, centrifugal governor. Dial, case and cuvette signed. DIAM. 57 mm.