Important Watches, Collector's Wrist...

Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 82

Audemars Piguet, Brassus and Geneva, No. 8387 made for Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1900.Very fine 18K gold, keyless, minute repeating pocket watch.

HKD 17,000 - 20,000

USD 2,200 - 2,500

Sold: HKD 27,600

C. Four-body, "bassine", thin, polished, gold, hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds, blued steel, Breguet hands. M. 39.5 (19'''), calibre SMV, rhodiumed, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs through activated slide in the band.Signed by the retailer on dial, case and movement.Diam. 48 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3 - 14
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 14 - 01

Notes

A virtually identical watch is illustrated and described in ?Audemars Piguet? by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, Brassus, 1993, p. 110.