Swiss watch with seven horological complications Circa 1865-1870

Gold pocket watch attributable to Louis Audemars
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A Swiss gold open faced pocket watch attributable to Louis Audemars double faced watch with seven horological complications, 18 Carat yellow gold, circa 1865-1870. Gilded brass movement, with going barrel, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve.

Double faced open faced, keyless winding, round shaped, pocket watch; hinged cover and case back, chiselled band; subsidiary seconds at 6 and seven horological complications: The first dial features: 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the round push piece located on the winding crown) The second dial features: Half instantaneous perpetual calendar, Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock), Day of the week (exterior graduation with central hand; indications given in French), Month of the year, subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in French), Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 A1/2, and aperture at 12 o’clock), Four year cycle of leap years, subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock.

White enamel dial, Roman numerals and Arabic outer, gold spade hands. Signed cuvette.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: Louis Audemars
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The originality and the quality of execution of this watch, as well as the way in which its chronograph mechanism and its perpetual calendar are imagined and implanted, incite us to attribute it to the workshop of Louis Audemars at Brassus (Vallée de Joux ). Complete disassembly of the entire movement may be able to find a number or a mark of manufacture to assert or refute this hypothesis.

Hairlines and chipped.