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SIGNED LS. AUDEMARS, GENEVE, NO. 12'133, CIRCA 1873
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Louis Audemars. An extremely rare and unusual 18K gold hunter case two train quarter repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with splitting jumping centre seconds and phases of the moon
Signed Ls. Audemars, Geneve, No. 12'133, circa 1873
The gilt-finished fully jewelled two train lever movement separately wound by turning the crown to either side, bimetallic compensation balance, quarter repeating on two polished steel hammers onto a gong, glazed dust cover, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer ring calibrated for Arabic five minute divisions, blued steel spade hands, four subsidiary dials indicating month combined with leap year indicator, day, date and phases of the moon combined with lunar calendar, in engine-turned circular case with repeating slide and two centre seconds start/stop buttons in the band, case numbered, cuvette and dial signed
57 mm. diam.
Signed Ls. Audemars, Geneve, No. 12'133, circa 1873
The gilt-finished fully jewelled two train lever movement separately wound by turning the crown to either side, bimetallic compensation balance, quarter repeating on two polished steel hammers onto a gong, glazed dust cover, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer ring calibrated for Arabic five minute divisions, blued steel spade hands, four subsidiary dials indicating month combined with leap year indicator, day, date and phases of the moon combined with lunar calendar, in engine-turned circular case with repeating slide and two centre seconds start/stop buttons in the band, case numbered, cuvette and dial signed
57 mm. diam.
Literature
Described and illustrated in Louis-Benjamin Audemars - His Life and Work by Hartmut Zantke, p. 332 and listed in Index of movement numbers, p. 180.
Sale room notice
Please note that this watch is not a split seconds chronograph as stated in the printed catalogue but a splitting jumping centre seconds watch, thus the second train. Also please note that it is a quarter repeater and not minute repeater as stated in the title in the printed catalogue.