Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...
Geneva, Nov 11, 2007
LOT 268
Triple Date and Moon Phases - for Cartier Audemars Piguet, Genève, retailed by Cartier, No. 55900, case No. 2202. Made circa 1950. Very fine and rare, square, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with triple date, lunar calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.
CHF 55,000 - 70,000
EUR 35,000 - 40,000 / USD 45,000 - 60,000
Sold: CHF 66,080
C. Two-body, square, solid, polished and brushed, teardrop lugs, correctors on the band. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes, inner date ring, subsidiary dial for the seconds, apertures for the days of the month, months and moon phases, the age of the moon at the edge. Yellow gold baton hands. M. 9 1/2???, rhodium plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 25 x 25 mm. Thickness 8 mm.
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Grade: |
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Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-20-01 |
Good Period original HANDS Original |
Notes
Similar watches are published in: ?Audemars Piguet?, by G. L. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli and M. K. Wehrli, pp. 71, 231, 232 and 236; and ?Le Temps de Cartier?, by Baracca, Negretti, and Nencini, p. 178 and 252.