351,750 CHF
LOUIS AUDEMARS FOR LEROY HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND ULTRA COMPLICATED WATCH WITH 11 COMPLICATIONS PRESENTED BY HIS MAJESTY KING ALPHONSE XIII OF SPAIN TO HIS EXCELLENCY VICENTE SANTAMARIA DE PAREDES L. Leroy & Cie, Palais Royal, Paris, No. 58515, case and movement No. 11820, the movement supplied by Louis Audemars. Presented by King Alphonse XIII (1886-1941) to Count Vicente Santamaria de Paredes (1853-1924) in 1920. Exceptional, highly important and ultra-complicated, large, two-time-zone, minute-repeating, two-train, heavy 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with gold wheel train, perpetual calendar, jumping center-seconds split-seconds chronograph, constant seconds, fifths of a second diablotine, moon phases and age and Réaumur thermometer. Four-body, bassine et filets, the bezel engraved with a repeated pattern, polished band with correctors and hand-setting buttons for both time zones, large winding crown chased with acanthus leaves, the back cover deeply chased with scrolls and foliage and the monogram "VS", co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and rejoin chronograph functions. Hinged glazed gold-rimmed cuvette to view the movement. White enamel with two meantime dials at 9 and 3 with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph ring with Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, the months of the four-year cycle combined with seconds and fifths of a second diablotine, aperture for the moon phases w
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10
