Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2018

LOT 268

ATTRIBUTABLE TO LOUIS AUDEMARS DOUBLE-FACED WATCH WITH SEVEN HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS, 18K YELLOW GOLD

HKD 132,000 - 165,000

CHF 16,600 - 20,000 / USD 17,000 - 21,000

18K yellow gold, double-faced open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch; hinged cover and case-back, chiselled band; subsidiary seconds at 6 and seven horological complications: The first dial features: 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the round push-piece located on the winding-crown) The second dial features: Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar, Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock), Day of the week (exterior graduation with central hand; indications given in French), Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 3 o'clock; indications given in French), Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 A1/2, and aperture at 12 o'clock), Four-year cycle of leap-years (subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock)


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-25-71-01

Good

Chipped

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

HANDS Original

Brand Unsigned

Year circa 1865-1870

Caliber 21'' gilded brass, with going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve

Dimensions Ø 55 mm.

Notes

The originality and the quality of execution of this watch, as well as the way in which its chronograph mechanism and its perpetual calendar are imagined and implanted, incite us to attribute it to the workshop of Louis Audemars at Brassus (Vallée de Joux ). A complete disassembly of the entire movement may be able to find a number or a mark of manufacture to assert or refute this hypothesis.