Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 203

Quarter-Repeating Louis Audemars, No. 11889, retailed by Le Roy & Fils, H.gers de la Marine, Palais Royal, 13 & 15, Gal.ie Montpensier, Paris, No. 51594. Made in 1872. Very fine, 18K rose gold, quarter-repeating, hunting cased pocket watch. Accompanied by a fitted box To be sold without reserve

CHF 2,000 - 3,000

USD 1,800 - 2,800 / EUR 1,300 - 2,000

Sold: CHF 6,240

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets",mastermarkMF, polished, front cover engraved with amonogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial narrow Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. 18???, frosted gilt, 23 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature adjustment screws, blued-steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case with Louis Audemar?s trademark, cuvette signed by the retailer, case numbered and movement numbered on the dial plate. Diam. 52 mm


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Louis Audemars (1782-1833) Born in La Vallée de Joux, at 16 Louis Audemars was apprenticed to Philippe Meylan and soon established his reputation for the fine workmanship of his movements. All eight of Audemar's sons continued in the family firm, making finished movements, and around 1837 inventing the keyless winding/setting system known today as the Audemars system. In 1848 Audemars began producing complete watches. The company became recognized as one of the best, furnishing the major Swiss and French manufacturers such as Le Roy, Patek Philippe, and Vacheron Constantin, with highly complicated watches and movements.