Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 270

?Triple complication? E. Gübelin, horloger, Lucerne, movement by Audemars Piguet, No. 12584. Made circa 1910. Very fine, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, lunar calendar and moon phases.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, back with intricateengraved cipher. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with largeBreguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers,subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the 4-year leap cycle concentric with the minute register, subsidiaryseconds concentric with the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Gold "spade" hands. M. 16.6''', rhodium plated,fausses-côtes" decoration, bar caliber, 33 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balancewith gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs via activating slide onthe band.Diam. 52 mm.