1,001,500 HKD
“Watch with 9 Complications” Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 120878, case No. 58786. Made in 1972. Very fine and important, 18K yellow gold, astronomical, keyless, slim, minute-repeating dress watch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, split-seconds chronograph and progressive 30-minute register. Three-body, "variée", polished and brushed with inclined bezels. Brushed silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute/second track and fifth second timing scale, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months, leap year cycle with outer 30- minute register, date, seconds/lunar age with inner moon phase aperture. Gold "baton" hands. Notes For a "triple complication", the movement of this watch is extremely thin and is certainly among the slimmest made at the time. Similar triple complication dress watches are illustrated in “Audemars Piguet”, by G. L. Brunner, Chr. Pfeiffer-Belli, and M. K. Wehrli, 1993 Edition, pp. 153-156. Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus and Geneva The firm was founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22, under the name “Audemars Piguet, Manufacture d'Horlogerie”. Jules Audemars was born in Le Brassus in 1851, where he was trained by master watchmakers of the area. After his apprenticeship, Audemars began work as a “repasseur”. In 1874, he moved to Gimel and opened a small business next to his workshop. It did not, however, acheive the success he had hoped for, probably due to the recession
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
