The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 510

Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 33811, circa 1925.Very fine and rare 18K gold, moon phase, astronomical, keyless, minute repeating dress watch with perpetual calendar, split seconds chronograph and progressive 30 minutes recorder.

CHF 110,000 - 130,000

C. Three piece, massive, "variée", polished and satiné with bevelled bezels. D. Silver satiné with applied gold indexes, outer minute and chronograph rings, sunk subsidiary dials for days of the week, months of the leap year cycle with outer minute register, dates and seconds with inner moon phase aperture. Gold "bâtons" hands. M. 18''', rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, Breguetalance spring with swan neck micrometric index. Repeating ongongs with slide in the band. Split secondschronograph with visible work, operated by means of the winding crown with push piece in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 48 mm.Accompanied by a fitted box and instructions of use.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: * 3
Dial: 3 - 5 - 01

Notes

For a triple complication, the movement of this watch is extremely thin and is certainly among the slimest made at the time.Similar triple complication dress watches are illustrated in Audemars Piguet, by G. L. Brunner, Chr. Pfeiffer-Belli andM. K. Wehrli, 1993 Edition, pp. 153-156.The following Audemars Piguet wristwatches, lots 511, 515, 518, 521, 523, 525, belong to a famous European Collector who has gathered them over fifteen years of research. These are certainly among the different manufactured watches that are very difficult to find due to the reduced production of Audemars Piguet. Some of these pieces have never been seen at auction since before the end of the 1970's when collecting wristwatches began. This is an excellent occasion for collectors of Audemars Pigue. Many years will pass before we are able to see similar pieces at auction again.