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Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 298

Watch with 10 Complications Audemars Piguet, No. 13928. Made for E. Gübelin, Lucerne. Made circa 1912 and completed in 1923, sold to Gubelin in February 1924 for 3300 Swiss Francs. Very fine and extremely rare, thin and elegant, Art Deco, minute-repeating, 18K white gold and enamel keyless dress watch with perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, progressive 60-minute register, moon phases and lunar calendar.

CHF 100,000 - 150,000

USD 100,000 - 150,000 / EUR 67,000 - 100,000

Sold: CHF 108,000

C. Three-body, ?bassine et filet?, polished and brushed, the bezels, pendant and bow decorated with a black champlevé enamel Greek-key pattern, start/stop button in the crown, splitseconds button in the band at 11 o?clock, the back cover inlaid with black enamel initials ?W.M.H. Jr?. D. Brushed silver with champleve upright Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle concentric with the 60-minute progressive register, date and days of the week, moonphase aperture with seconds and lunar calendar. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. SMCCRQV, 18???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible steel chronograph work, repeating on two gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed E. Gübelin. Diam. 49 mm.


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Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

The complicated watches of Audemars Piguet were highly prized by companies such as Gübelin because their movements were thin and well suited to the dress watches that were popular in the early 20th century. To date approximately 10 watches from this series are known, most in yellow gold and a small number in white gold. The watch with the preceding number (13927) to the present watch, also in an identical white gold case is illustrated in ?Audemars Piguet?, Brunner, Pfeiffer-Belli, Wehrli, 1993, p. 154 and was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, October 14, 1990, lot 86. The watch with the following number (13929) was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, November 12, 2006, lot 54. This watch has the same complications as lot 300 (see list).