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Geneva, Nov 11, 2007
LOT 240
Pink Gold Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, retailed by Gobbi, Milan, No. 44508. Made circa 1940. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register and tachometer.
CHF 38,000 - 48,000
EUR 23,000 - 30,000 / USD 32,000 - 40,000
Sold: CHF 70,800
C. Three-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs. D. Brushed silvered with applied pink gold conical indexes and Arabic half-hour numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel épée hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness 12 mm. From ?The Collection?
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |