Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 284

Audemars Frères & Co. Made for the British market in the 1890s. Very fine, hunting-cased, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, split-seconds chronograph with 30-minute register.

C. Five-body, "bassine et filets,? solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with large Arabic numerals,outer minute ring, outermost 1/5th seconds graduation, 4 sunk subsidiary dials for the days of the month, theweek, the months of the 4 year leap cycle and concentric 30-minute register, aperture for the moon phases. Bluedsteel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 21''', maillechort, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compen-sationbalance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, chronograph and split-seconds mechanism on the back plate,repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Diam. 57 mm.