Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jul 23, 2020
LOT 40
Audemars Piguet for Le Roy & Fils
Pocket watch, chronograph, split-seconds, minute recorder; 18K yellow gold
Pocket watch, chronograph, split-seconds, minute recorder; 18K yellow gold
HKD 26,000 - 35,000
CHF 3,200 - 4,200 / USD 3,400 - 4,500
18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, thin pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and three horological complications, made for the English market:
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the winding-crown)
• Split-seconds (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 11 o’clock)
• Dragging 30-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
14K gold dial (by Stieger, No. 128 / 11602), with suspended Breguet numerals; blued steel “Lozange” hands.
Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) “To H.M. The KING / LE ROY & FILS / 57 NEW BOND ST / LONDON / PARIS / MADE IN FRANCE”.
17’’’, 171 / 2 SCRCV, rhodium-plated, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw; chronograph work and split-seconds work on the top plate.
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the winding-crown)
• Split-seconds (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 11 o’clock)
• Dragging 30-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
14K gold dial (by Stieger, No. 128 / 11602), with suspended Breguet numerals; blued steel “Lozange” hands.
Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) “To H.M. The KING / LE ROY & FILS / 57 NEW BOND ST / LONDON / PARIS / MADE IN FRANCE”.
17’’’, 171 / 2 SCRCV, rhodium-plated, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw; chronograph work and split-seconds work on the top plate.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux)
Model made for Guignard & Co., London; retailed by Le Roy & Fils, London, Paris
Year circa 1909
Movement No. 11 602
Case No. 11 602 (Charles Guignard & Co., London, master mark (“C G”); with London import marks for 1909-1910)
Caliber 17’’’, 171 / 2 SCRCV, lever escapement
Dimensions Ø 47.1 mm.
Signature cuvette (dome) by the retailer