Audemars Frères Genève 14k gold hunting-case minute repeating pocket watch with chronograph
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
circa 1900
This large, keyless, hunting-cased pocket watch by Audemars Frères Genève dates to approximately 1900. Crafted from 14k gold, the timepiece features a hunter-style construction with a spring-loaded front cover, a hinged gold cuvette, and a snap-on bezel.
The white enamel dial is complemented by gold hands and a blued steel chronograph hand, featuring Arabic numerals and a subsidiary seconds dial. Technically sophisticated, the watch is powered by a hand-wound mechanical movement equipped with a straight-line lever escapement, a cut-bimetallic balance, a self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, and an index regulator. It includes a column-wheel chronograph mechanism and a minute-repeater function that chimes on gongs, activated by a push-button on the band, with an integrated centrifugal governor.
The case, dial, and movement are all signed by the maker. The watch measures 57 mm in diameter with a thickness of 15.90 mm. Identifiers include movement number 5575, cuvette number 297075, and front cover number 075 817.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Diameter
- 57 mm
- Material
- 14k gold
- Thickness
- 15.90 mm
Technical characteristics
- Spring
- Breguet balance spring
- Balance
- cut-bimetallic
- Winding
- keyless
- Movement
- hand wound
- Regulator
- index
- Escapement
- straight line lever
- Complications
- minute repeating, single button chronograph
- Chronograph mechanism
- column-wheel
Design
- Dial
- white enamel
- Hands
- gold with blued steel chronograph hand
- Features
- spring loaded front cover, hinged cuvette, snap on bezel
- Case type
- hunting-case
Identification
- Source note
- Described from a single auction-house listing published on Invaluable (reproduced with Invaluable's permission). Details apply to that one example; other examples of the type may differ, and the listing is supplementary evidence, not authentication.
- Maker named in listing
- Audemars Frères
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.