Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990
LOT 175
Audemars Piguet, Swiss, No 33981, made for Cartier in 1926.
CHF 100,000 - 120,000
Sold: CHF 126,500
Very elegant and extremely rare 18 ct. gold very flat minute repeating keyless dress watch with split second chronograph and progressive 30 minute recorder. Three piece double body massive "bassine pincée" polished case. Gold cuvette.Satiné pink gold dial with applied gold Arabic numerals and indexes, outer Arabic minute and chronograph rings, subsidiary inset yellow dials for the minute register and the subsidiary seconds. Gold "bâton" hands. Rhodium plated 18" movement with a gold train of wheels, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, 8 adjustments, Breguet balance spring with a swan neck micrometric index. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. The split second chronograph with visible work, the push piece of the chronograph on the crown, that of the split seconds on the band. Signed "Cartier" on the dial, "Audemars Piguet" on the dial, the case and the movement. In excellent condition. Diam. 47 mm.
