377,600 HKD
“Miniature Minute Repeater & Perpetual Calendar” Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, Made for Cooke & Kelvey, London, No. 2630. The case with London hallmarks for 1884. Unique and exceptionally fine, miniature, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phase and lunar calendar. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, by Alfred Stram (master mark), polished, the back cover engraved with a monogram. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months, four year cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and lunar calendar. Blued steel “spade” hands. 32mm (14”’), frosted gilt, three-quarter plate, calibrated lateral lever escapement fully jeweled in screwed chatons, going train jeweled to the center in screwed chatons, diamond endstone, cut bimetallic compensation balance, free-sprung blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed, punched “AP” on the pillar-plate. Diam. 42 mm. Notes 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
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
