Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 435

Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 14759 made for E. Gübelin in 1912.Very fine and unusually large 18K gold, astronomical, moon phases, triple calendar watch with split-seconds chronograph.

CHF 38,000 - 50,000

EUR 27,000 - 35,000 / USD 28,000 - 37,000

Sold: CHF 41,400

C. Four-body, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. Matte silver, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months and phases of the moon aperture with moon's age. Blued steel "Cathedral" hands. M. 38.5 mm. (17'''), rhodium-plated, 22 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, split-econds mechanism on the back plate.Signed on the case by the retailer.Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3
Movement: 3*
Dial: 3-6-01

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Audemars Piguet very rarely made such large watches. This must have been made for a special order. The movement is a good example of a variation of their SCRV caliber where the split-seconds mechanism as well as the minute register was placed under the dial in order to run the register directly from the motion train. In this case because of the calendar, the split-seconds mechanism was placed on the back plate. For a basic Audemars Piguet SCRV ebauche, see "Audemars Piguet" by Gisbert L. Brunne, C. Pfeiffer-Belli, and Martin K. Wehrli, München, 1993, p. 104.