Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 646

AUDEMARS PIGUET WATCH WITH 7 COMPLICATIONS Audemars Piguet, retailed by A. Eppner & Co., Silberg-Breslau, Praezisions-Uhr, No. 30. Made circa 1910. Extremely fine and rare, 18K rose gold, minute-repeating, half-hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with Chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar.

Four-body, "bassine et filets", massive, polished, the front cover with glazed aperture and radial black Roman numerals, the back cover with finely engraved full coat of arms, the interior of the back with engraved dedication, push button for the chronograph at 12. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five second/minute numerals, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon, lunar calendar on the edge. Gold Louis XV hands. 43 mm. 19''', matte gilt, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and platinum meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.