AUDEMARS PIGUET Lot n° 170

WATCH WITH COMPLICATIONS No. 4172. Made in 1892. Extremely fine and important, large, heavy 18K rose gold, minute-repeating,grande and petite sonnerie, hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with instantaneous 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and phases of the moon. Accompanied by the original Certificate. Case: Four-body, massive, polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram, push button for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph at 12. Hinged gold cuvette. Dial: white enamel with Roman numerals, inner minutes track, outermost chronograph track with fifths of a second divisions and black Arabic five second/minute numerals, subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon. Pink gold "Spade" hands. Movement: 19''', matte gilt, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Case numbered. Dial, case and movement in very good condition. Diam. 60 mm NOTE: It is a wonderful example of one of Audemars Piguet's "Complication" pocket watches, meeting a level of superb quality characterizing the manufacture's timepieces.