Important Watches, Collectors’ Wristw...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 389

Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 37125, made for Golay Fils & Stahl, Genève, circa 1927. Very fine and important 18K white gold, keyless, astronomical, minute-repeating watch with perpetual calendar and phases of the moon.

C. Three-piece, ?moderne?, brushed with polished band.D. Silver, champlevé Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four year leap cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Blued steel ?cathedral? hands.M. 39 mm (18'''), rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetalliccompensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Dial and the movement signed by the retailer, movement and case numbered with Audemars Piguet serial number.Diam. 46 mm.