Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 228

?Split Seconds Chronograph? Audemars Piguet & Co., Brassus & Geneva, No. 4342. Made circa 1910. Very fine, keyless, 18K pink gold pocket watch with splitseconds chronograph and ?Extra? adjustment.

USD 2,000 - 3,000

EUR 1,600 - 2,300

Sold: USD 4,248

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine,? solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gilt ?Louis XI" hands. M. Cal. 17''', maillechort, "fausses côtes" deco-ration, 23 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with ?Extra? adjustment, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, visible chronograph works, split-seconds mechanism under the dial. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 3-6-9*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Scratched

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-40-01

Good

HANDS Original