35,400 CHF
"Watch with 9 Complications" Henry Lewis, 172 New Bond Street, London, No. 11/700, the movement by Audemars Piguet, No. 2149. The case with London hallmarks for 1890. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, progressive 60-minute register, moon phases and lunar calendar. Four-body, "bassine et filets" massive, solid, polished, master mark "AS" (Alfred Stram). Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second chronograph track with Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary dials for months and leap years concentric with 60-minute register, days of the week, date, seconds, lunar calendar, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes The complications of this watch are: Perpetual calendar Days of the month Days of the week Months Four-year cycle Age and phases of the moon Chronograph 60-minute register Minute-repeater
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
