Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 196

Pink Gold ?Minute Repeater? Audemars Frères, Geneva, No. 33696. Made circa 1900. Fine, thin, 18K rose gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with engraved monogram. Gold hinged cuvette. D. Three-piece, white enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute track with outermost blue Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 39 mm (17'''), rhodium-plated, ?fausses cotes? decoration, 31 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48 mm.