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Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 449

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

CHF 40,000 - 50,000

EUR 25,000 - 30,000 / USD 30,000 - 40,000

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 sunk subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months and phases of the moon aperture with age of moon. 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-seconds mechanism on the back plate.Case signed by the retailer.Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 6 - 01

Notes

Audemars Piguet very rarely made such large watches; this one must have been made on special order. The movement is a good example of a variation of their SCRV caliber, in which 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. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli, and Martin K. Wehrli, München, 1993, p. 104.