Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 506

Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 46501, made circa 1943. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

CHF 50,000 - 60,000

EUR 30,000 - 37,000 / USD 40,000 - 50,000

Sold: CHF 96,760

C. Three-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs. D. Rose, with applied gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, 1/5TH second and outermost blue tachometer graduations. Yellow gold ?baton? hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 11,7 mm. From ?The Collection?


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3-22-01

Good

Later original

HANDS Original

Notes

Similar watches are published in ?Audemars Piguet?, by G. L. Brunner, Chr. Pfeiffer-Belli and M. K. Wehrli, 1993, pp. 242-243 and 252-253. Although slightly larger than the models produced by other prestigious manufacturers, (33/34 mm. for Patek Philippe, and 34/35 mm. for Vacheron & Constantin), the 36 mm. Audemars Piguet chronograph is considered among one of the most elegant and refined.