Audemars Piguet. A fine, rare and elegant platinum openface perpetual calendar keyless lever dress watch with moon phases and box
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Audemars Piguet. A fine, rare and elegant platinum openface perpetual calendar keyless lever dress watch with moon phases and box

SIGNED AUDEMARS PIGUET, NO. 31'526, RETAILED BY ALLEMANN, MONTREUX, MANUFACTURED IN 1924

Closed12 May 2014

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Audemars Piguet. A fine, rare and elegant platinum openface perpetual calendar keyless lever dress watch with moon phases and box
Signed Audemars Piguet, no. 31'526, retailed by Allemann, Montreux, manufactured in 1924
Cal. 17 1/2 SVF nickel-finished lever movement, 19 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, silvered dial, applied white gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions, white gold Cathedral hands, four sunk subsidiary dials for month and leap year, day, date and constant seconds with moon phases and lunar calendar, plain circular case, snap on back, case numbered, dial signed by retailer, movement signed by maker
46 mm. diam.

Specialist note

With Allemann Montreux fitted presentation box.

According to the Archives of Audemars Piguet, the present watch was made in 1914 and sold in 1930 to the firms' retailer Allemann in Montreux.

Consigned by a private collector and preserved in very good original overall condition, the present dress watch is a wonderful example of one of Audemars Piguet's elegant dress watches from the 1920s. The rarity is further enhanced by its rare platinum case.