Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 243

AUDEMARS PIGUET, NAPOLEON REVIEWING THE TROOPS, MINUTE REPEATING ENAMEL POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, No. 2679, retailed by Joh. Hartmann, maker to the king, Berlin. Made circa 1880. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, minute-repeating, hunting- cased, keyless pocket watch with double enamel scene

Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned borders, front enamel scene depicting Napoleon reviewing his troops before battle, the reverse with Napoleon standing in front of the tomb of Friedrich II. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold spade hands. Gilt, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed by the retailer, movement with Audemars Piguet stamp under the dial.