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Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 129

Timekeeper with 4 ComplicationsAudemars Piguet, Brassus and Geneva,No. 5385, made in 1894.Very fine 18K gold minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30 minutes register in original wooden fitted box.

CHF 10,000 - 12,000

USD 6,200 - 7,500

Sold: CHF 17,250

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute and seconds rings with five-minute/seconds red Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds, sunk minutes register below 12 o'clock. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 40,6 mm (18'''), caliber SMCRS, rhodium-plated, 37 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, wolf-tooth winding whels, chronograph mechanism on the back plate, split-seconds mechanism under the dial.Signed on the dial, case punched with the maker's mark, number repeated on the movement.Diam. 48 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

This watch was chosen to represent the company's achievements and is illustrated and described in "Audemars Piguet", by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, Le Brassus, 1993, p. 132.