447,300 CHF
"Pink Gold, Triple Date, Chronograph & Moon Phase - Three-Tone Dial" Audemars Piguet & Co. , Genève, No. 45983. Made circa 1940. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with olive button chronograph, register, tachometer, triple date, moon phases and age, and three-tone dial, with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, teardrop lugs. Brushed gold with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute track with concentric fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/second numerals, subsidiary dials with matte silvered centers for the 30-minute register combined with the months at 3, for the seconds combined with the days of the week at 9, subsidiary dial for the date at 12, sector for the lunar calendar and aperture for the moon phases at 6, outer tachometer graduation. Pink gold "baton" hands. Notes This model is one of the most beautiful and sought-after wristwatches made by Audemars Piguet. It is particularly rare with two-tone dial and in addition, the present watch is in original unrestored condition. The combination of the large-size case, teardrop lugs and visually appealing dial design make it one of the classic vintage wristwatches of the 1940s. A similar watch is illustrated in "Audemars Piguet" by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli and Martin K. Wehrli, p. 247. Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus and Geneva. Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 an
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
