104,500 CHF
LOUIS AUDEMARS RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PRESENTATION WATCH WITH 7 COMPLICATIONS Louis Audemars, Brassus & Geneva, No. 14062. Made for Russian Imperial presentation, circa 1895. Extremely fine and exceptional, large, 18K gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, special patented split-seconds chronograph and antimagnetic escapement. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, the front cover decorated with the Russian Imperial arms in black, blue and red champlevé enamel and set with rose-cut diamonds, gold levers for calendar setting protruding from under the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds divided into fifths, five-minute/ seconds red Arabic numerals, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four year leap cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and lunar calendar. Blued steel spade hands. 43 mm. (19’’’), “superior adjustment”, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, antimagnetic straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with platinum temperature adjustment screws, special alloy Breguet balance spring with overcoil, rack and pinion micrometer regulator, chronograph and split activated by buttons in the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 58 mm Notes The present watch is one o
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
