Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 249

?Astronomic Dress Watch? Audemars Piguet, No. 33567. Made circa 1925. Very fine, rare and elegant slim 18K white gold keyless astronomical Art Deco dress watch with perpetual calendar and phases and age of the moon.

C. Three-piece, ?Couteau?, polished, sloped bezels, knife edge band. D. White gold,applied white gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions, four subsidiary sunkdials for days of the week, date, months of the four year leap year cycle and subsidiary secondsconcentric with phases of the moon aperture. White gold ?Cathedral? hands. M. 17''', rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes?decoration, 19 jewels, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance and flat balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 46 mm.