Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 17, 2013
LOT 327
AUDEMARS PIGUET ? MINUTE REPEATING WATCH Audemars Piguet, Geneve, No. 14844. Made circa 1910. Very fine, 18K yellow gold minute-repeating keyless dress watch now fitted with lugs for wristwatch use and with an 18K yellow gold deployant clasp.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 4,500 - 6,500 / EUR 3,000 - 5,000
Sold: CHF 10,000
C. Four-body, bassine, polished, the back cover with two applied gold bar lugs. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Matte gold with champleve Paris numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 17 1/2???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, wolf ?s tooth winding, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 7 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-31 |
Good Transformations |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-10-01 |
Good Patinated HANDS Original |