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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 428

Audemars Piguet, No. 32774, made in 1925. Very fine and rare platinum keyless minute-repeating dress watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register.

CHF 20,000 - 25,000

EUR 14,000 - 17,000 / USD 12,000 - 15,000

Sold: CHF 50,600

C. Three-body, ?bassine?, brushed back and bezel, polished band. D. Silver, matted with applied white gold Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost seconds divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds, minute recorder at 12 o?clock. M. 40.5 mm. (18???), caliber SMCRV, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 35 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, chronograph and split-seconds works set on the back plate, repeating on gongs, slide on the band. Signed on dial, case and movement. Diam. 46 mm.


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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

Notes

An identical watch, but with a different color dial, made by Audemars Piguet and retailed by Cartier, is illustrated and described in ?Audemars Piguet?, by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, 1993,p. 131.