Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 292

Audemars Piquet, Brassus & Genève, No. 6972, made in 1902. Very fine 18K gold, keyless minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, gold hinged cuvette.D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, register at 12, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel ?spade? hands.M. 39 mm (18???), rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement with the same serial number.Diam. 48 mm.