Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 431

AUDEMARS PIGUET THIN MINUTE-REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 13836. Made circa 1925. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch.

CHF 7,000 - 9,000

HKD 56,000 - 72,000 / USD 7,300 - 9,400

Sold: CHF 9,375

Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Silver with applied yellow gold stylized Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 18''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, 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.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. 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, first edition, p. 117, pl. 86.