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    15 November 2004

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    • Louis Audemars made for Bregue
    Lot 227

    Louis Audemars made for Breguet. A fine and small 18K gold hunter case quarter repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with phases of the moon

    SIGNED LOUIS AUDEMARS, NO. 12158 AND BREGUET, NO. 4269, MANUFACTURED IN 1873, SOLD TO BREGUET AND FINISHED ON 5 SEPTEMBER 1885

    Price realised

    CHF 40,630

    Estimate

    CHF 15,000 - CHF 20,000

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    Louis Audemars made for Breguet. A fine and small 18K gold hunter case quarter repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with phases of the moon
    Signed Louis Audemars, No. 12158 and Breguet, No. 4269, manufactured in 1873, sold to Breguet and finished on 5 September 1885
    Cal. 14''' gilt brass lever movement, 32 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, wolf's tooth winding, quarter repeating on two polished steel hammers onto two gongs, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute divisions, blued steel spade hands, four subsidiary dials indicating month, day, date and phases of the moon combined with lunar calendar and constant seconds, in small circular case with engine-turned covers, repeating slide in the band, case stamped LA and numbered 12158, cuvette signed Breguet, No. 4269
    38 mm. diam.

    Provenance

    The Art of Breguet, Habsburg Geneva 14 April 1991, lot 108.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Described and illustrated in Louis Benjamin Audemars - His Life and Work by Hartmut Zantke, p. 335 and listed in the Index of movement numbers on p. 180.


    Lot Essay

    The present watch is one of the smallest pocketwatches featuring a perpetual calendar and repeating mechanism known to date. As stated in Hartmut Zantke's work, the ébauche was manufactured by Louis Audemars around 1873 and sold to Breguet.

    Breguet finished the watch on 5 September 1885 and sold it on 29 December 1885 for the amount of 2,500 Francs to Mir et Cottereau, their agent in Constantinople at the end of the 19th century.

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