Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990

LOT 86

Audemars Piguet, Swiss, No 13927, made for Gübelin, Lucern, ébauche begun 1911, sold 1923. Very elegant and extremely rare 18 ct. white gold and enamel very flat, minute repeating keyless Art-Déco, moon phase astronomical dress watch with perpetual calendar, split second chronograph and progressive 60 minute recorder.

Double body massive "demi-bassine" polished and satiné case, the bezel, the border of the back, the pendant and the bow with a black champlevé enamelled decoration in a Greek key pattern. Mat silver dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph rings, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months with the leap year cycle and outer minute register, the dates and the seconds with inner moon phase aperture. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rhodium plated 18"' movement with a gold train of wheels, 35 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 a visible work, the push piece of the chronograph on the crown that of the split seconds on the band. Signed "Gübelin" on the dial and the movement, "Audemars Piguet" on the dial, the case and the movement. In excellent condition. Diam.49 mm.