47,500 CHF
LOUIS AUDEMARS "38 MM" ONE OF THE SMALLEST POCKET WATCHES WITH PERPETUAL CALENDAR EVER MADE RETAILED BY BREGUET Louis Audemars, Brassus, No. 12158, retailed by Breguet as No. 4269. Made in 1873, sold by Breguet on December 29th, 1885 to Mir et Cottereau for 2500 Francs. Exceptional, important and very small, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases, 13 ligne movement - one of the smallest known pocket watches with perpetual calendar. Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned with polished borders and band, correctors protruding from the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months with leap-year cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Blued steel spade hands. 30 mm.(13"'), frosted gilt, 32 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line Audemars lever escapement with shepherd's crook counterpoise, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial numbered on the counter enamel, reverse of the moon disc scratch signed "Ls- Audemars, Brassus (Suisse), No. 12158", case with Louis Audemars punch marks and numbered, cuvette signed "Breguet No. 4269". DIAM. 38 mm. The present Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
