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

LOT 640

?Minute Repeater & Split- Seconds Chronograph? Audemars Piguet, No. 5385. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register.

CHF 20,000 - 25,000

EUR 12,000 - 15,000 / USD 16,000 - 20,000

Sold: CHF 25,960

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial black Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of seconds divisions, red Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6, 30-minute register at 12 o?clock. Blued steel ?Spade? hands. M. 37 mm. (16???), rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, adjusted cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, chronograph and split-seconds mechanisms set on the back plate, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and case signed. Diam. 48 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

A similar watch is illustrated and described in ?Audemars Piguet?, by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, 1993,p. 131.