Swiss perpetual calendar with minute repeater Circa 1881

A Swiss gold perpetual calendar and minute repeater Circa 1881

Kenmerk: SA0960
Diameter: 55 mm

Estimate: € 25.000 - 50.000
Price sold: -

Gold perpetual calendar and minute repeating watch with moon phases
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A fine and very rare Swiss pink gold hunting cased perpetual calendar and minute repeating pocket watch with moon phases, circa1881, sold in 1885, manual winding jeweled gilt lever movement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, minute repeating with two hammers on two gongs, 18k pink gold cuvette.

white enamel dial, black painted Roman numerals, four subsidiary dials for day, date, months combined with leap year indication, and constant seconds with an aperture for the moon-phases, outer minute track, pink gold minute and jour hands.

18k Pink gold case with a slide for the minute repeating, covers engraved with the initials of Sultan Abdülhamid II and dated 1303 AH (1885 AD), both bordered with laurel wreaths, cuvette signed, case signed Meylan Frères.
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Diameter: 55 mm

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Signed: Louis Audemars for Breguet
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With a copy of the original worksheet of Louis Audemars and certificate by Audemars.

Thanks to the documentation coming with the watch, it is possible to understand the process of its production. Indeed, it started on the 11^th June 1873. The case was supplied by Meylan Freres on the 25^th April 1880. The watch was then sent to Audemars Paris in 1881.

The watch bears the signatures of some of the most renowned firms and is a testimony of the close links they had. The ébauche by Louis Audemars and the case, first made by Meylan Freres, were both sold to Breguet, who finished the work and finally sold the watch on December 29^th, 1885 to their agent in Constantinople.

This watch, a beautiful example of craftsmanship and complicated watch, is engraved with the year of sale and the initials of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamed II. He reigned from 1876 to 1909 and was the 34^th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, one of the most important and powerful state at that time.