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Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 110

Timekeeper with 9 ComplicationsAudemars frères et Cie, Brassus and Geneva, circa 1890.Very fine and rare 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless astronomical minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph, 30-minutes register, perpetual calendar, and phases and age of the moon, in original mahogany fitted box.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, large Breguet numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with minute register and subsidiary seconds with phases of the moon and its age aperture. Blued steel, "spade" hands. M. 44,5 mm (19 3/4'''), nickeled, 39 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimeallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, split-seconds and chronograph mechanisms on the back plate, repeating on gongs by a slide in the band.Signed on the box.Diam. 56 mm.