Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2018

LOT 315

AUDEMARS PIGUET WATCH WITH SIX HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS

HKD 156,000 - 195,000

CHF 19,500 - 24,000 / USD 20,000 - 25,000

18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, Art Deco dress-watch, snap-on case-back, subsidiary seconds at 6, dial with Breguet numerals, and six horological complications: Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar, Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 3 o'clock), Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock; indications given in French), Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock; indications given in French), Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 A1/2, and aperture at 6 o'clock), Four-year cycle of leap-years (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock)


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-11

Good

Slightly worn
Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-9-01

Good

Scratched

HANDS Original

Brand Audemars Piguet

Reference Ref. 5 516)

Year circa 1926

Movement No. 33 532

Case No. 33 532

Caliber 17'' rhodium-plated, very thin, with going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel flat hairspring, eight adjustments

Dimensions Ø 46 mm.

Signature dial, case and movement

Accessories Extract from the Archives

Notes

Audemars Piguet calendar wristwatches Audemars Piguet produced only 188 calendar wristwatches. They were made between 1921 and 1930, then between 1945 and 1950. They were cased and sold from 1924 to 1967. Twelve of them are fitted with perpetual calendar. They were made between 1947 and 1948 (3 pieces without leap-year indication), then between 1955 and 1957 (9 pieces with leap-year indication, cased under Ref. 5 516). They were sold between 1959 and 1969. The present lot comes from a series of 6 watches, of which this is the second example known to-date. The movements were entered in the manufacture Registers in 1928 (calibre 10 GHSM). Four watches were completed, cased and sold between 1947 and 1951; the two others were sold in 1954 and 1960, under the references 5 506 and 5 523. Three references 5 506 (Ø 28.6 mm.) were cased in yellow gold; two in white gold. Bibliography - Brunner, Gisbert L., & Pfeiffer-Belli, Christian, & Wehrli, Martin K., Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux), Editions Audemars Piguet, 1993, p. 230, ill. 307 (the present lot). - Vivas, Sebastian, & Friedman, Michael L., Audemars Piguet 20th century, Complicated Wristwatches, Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux), Editions Audemars Piguet, 2018, chapter II, “Calendars”, pp. 80-135. Similar watch No. 39 755 (Audemars Piguet Archival photograph No. 963; watch cased and sold in 1949 to Jaeger-LeCoultre Eisenhart) - Antiquorum, Geneva, April 13, 2002, lot 430, sold for the amount of CHF 34 500.- - Audemars Piguet Heritage Collection, Inv. 193. Bibliography - Brunner, Pfeiffer-Belli & Wehrli, 1993, p. 237, ill. 327. - Vivas & Friedman, 2018, pp. 112-113.