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.


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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