Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 425

Watch with 8 Complications Attributed to Louis Audemars, Swiss, case No. 10980. Made circa 1870. Very fine and rare, large, heavy 18K yellow gold, minuterepeating, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar.

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram, push button for the start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph at 12. Hinged gold cuvette over glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five second/minute numerals to 300 units, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon, lunar calendar on the edge. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case numbered. Diam. 55 mm.