Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 94

Chronograph Audemars Piguet et Co., Geneva, Swiss, ?Chronograph?, movement No. 45584, case No. 45584, Ref. 446. Made in 1941. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch, square button chronograph, register and tachometer scale. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel and lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte yellow with applied yellow gold square indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track, outermost tachometer scale. Yellow gold feuille hands. M. Cal. VZ, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating blued Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 33 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.