41,400 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 14759 made for E. Gübelin in 1912.Very fine and unusually large 18K gold, astronomical, moon phases, triple calendar watch with split-seconds chronograph. Four-body, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. Notes Audemars Piguet very rarely made such large watches. This must have been made for a special order. The movement is a good example of a variation of their SCRV caliber where the split-seconds mechanism as well as the minute register was placed under the dial in order to run the register directly from the motion train. In this case because of the calendar, the split-seconds mechanism was placed on the back plate. For a basic Audemars Piguet SCRV ebauche, see "Audemars Piguet" by Gisbert L. Brunne, C. Pfeiffer-Belli, and Martin K. Wehrli, München, 1993, p. 104.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
