Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 254

AUDEMARS PIGUET MINUTE-REPEATER Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 15945. Made circa 1930. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch.

USD 4,000 - 6,000

CHF 3,700 - 5,600 / EUR 3,000 - 4,700

Sold: USD 10,000

C. Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Silver with applied yellow gold stylized Arabic numerals, applied yellow gold dot minute tracks, engine-turned subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold pierced hands. M. 18''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-50-01

Very good

Refreshed

HANDS Original

Notes

A similar example of an Audemers Piguet minute repeating pocket watch is illustrated in Audemars Piguet by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli, Martin K. Wehrli, fi rst edition, p. 117, pl. 86.