59,800 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Geneve, No. 46539, made in 1942. Very fine and rare astronomic, pink gold and stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with olive shaped button chronograph, register and tachometer, with triple date, phases and age of the moon. massive, polished, teardrop lugs, pink gold bezel, buttons and crown, steel case and lugs. matt silver with applied gold Arabic numerals + auxiliary dials for the seconds and 30 minutes register dials, for the (lays of the month, of the week, the months and the lunar calendar, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the moon phase. "Baton" gold hands. Notes Only ver y few pieces of this type have been produced in stainless steel and pink gold. Similar watches are published in Audeeiaas Piguet, IVlasteipieces of classical watchmaking, Le Brasses, 1993, by G. L.. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli and M. K. Wehrli, pp. 246-247.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-04-12
