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SUMMARY:audemars-piguet - Date de vente : 08/12/2025
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : Audemars Piguet\n\nMovement: No. 16869\, with 26
 ’’’ “English” style\, three-quarter plate\, “Swiss” lever es
 capement\, one-minute tourbillon with three-arm polished steel cage\n\nDia
 l 1: front\; white enamel mean time dial\, Roman numerals\, four subsidia
 ry dials indicating perpetual calendar calibrated for leap cycle\, date co
 mbined with day of week\, register for elapsed 60 minutes and 12 hours\, a
 ges and phases of the moon combined with up/down indication\, the outer ri
 ng calibrated for equation of time\n\nDial 2: back\; Sidereal time\, the 
 dial silvered and gold over engine-turning\, calibrated for 24 hours\, in 
 Arabic numerals enclosing an aperture revealing the celestial chart and it
 s progress over London (51.5072° N\, 0.1276° W) at any time of the day o
 r night\, showing 315 stars and various labeled constellations\, all label
 ed in gold against a blue enamel ground\, the chart further labeled on two
  silvered plaques Western Horizon and Eastern Horizon. Olivette hand setti
 ng for each dial\n\nCase: the massive 18k yellow gold case\, with molded 
 bezels. The case band set with slides for choice of silent/striking and an
 other for quarters/hours. Five-bar hinged case. Thief-proof swivel bow sta
 mped with English hallmarks. The sky chart with the following named conste
 llations: Perseus\, Andromeda\, Cassiopeia\, Cepheus\, Cygnus\, Pegasus\, 
 Draco\, Lyra\, Serpens\, Taurus\, Scorpion\, Corona Borealis\, Hercules\, 
 the Great Bear\, Virgo\, Hydra\, Cancer\, Gemini\, and Orion\n\nSigned: d
 ial signed S. Smith & Son\, Trafalgar Square\, bezel interior stamped FT f
 or Frederick Thoms\, and London hallmarks\n\nSize: 85 mm\n\nAccompanied by
  a fitted wood box\, an album assembled by the former director of the Mus
 ée Atelier Audemars Piguet\, Martin Werhli\, who co-authored the 1993 mon
 ograph on the watches of Audemars Piguet. The album contains photocopies o
 f the workbook records\, including a copy of the Audemars Piguet Registre 
 d’Établissage (Establishment Register) listing the movement number\, co
 mponents\, and the ordering agent\, a copy of two documents referring to t
 he inspection of the jewelling\, one dated 1915\, and signed Ami Meylan. I
 t is further accompanied by what appears to be a photocopy of the invoice 
 or ledger for the finished watch\, dated 1921 to Guignard & Golay\, London
 \, the agents who ordered the watch on behalf of S. Smith & Sons\, and an 
 Extract from the Archives of Audemars Piguet\n\nFurther accompanied by an 
 invoice from Sydney (“Sid”) Rosenberg confirming the sale of $23\,350 
 in March of 1970 to Robert Olmsted\n\nSid Rosenberg\, New York\n\nRobert M
 . Olmsted\, New York\, March 30\, 1970\n\nThe Graphic\, November 19\, 1921
  pp. 598\n\nThe Horological Journal\, December 1990\, pp. 206\n\nGisbert B
 runner\, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli\, and Martin K. Wehrli\, Audemars Pigue
 t\, 1993\, figs. 143a-143\, pp. 63 and 166-174
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