Audemars Piguet, Pocket watch, single-button chronograph, split-seconds, minutes counter, made for the Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American markets; yellow gold (18-carat), (c.) 1922

Brand Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux)
Year circa 1922
Movement No. 26 590
Calibre 17’’’ ½, manual-winding, 22 jewels
Case No. 26 590
Material/s yellow gold (18-carat)
Dimensions Ø 46.9 mm.
Thickness 15 mm.
Weight 78,5 gr. (approx.)
Signature dial, case and movement
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Audemars Piguet
Pocket watch, single-button chronograph, split-seconds, minutes counter, made for the Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American markets; yellow gold (18-carat)

Yellow gold (18-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and three horological complications:
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single push-piece crown at 12 o’clock) with telemetric scale graduated on the dial for 1 000 metres
• Split-seconds function (activated by the rectangular-shaped push-piece located on the case-band at 11 o’clock)
• Dragging 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)

Case: four-piece, “Bassine”, polished; gold cuvette (dome); oval-shaped clipped bow.

Dial: silver colour, two-tone, “sunburst”, with black painted suspended Arabic “Breguet” numerals; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines and internal black painted radiating Arabic numerals (5-60); blued steel “Breguet” hands.

Movement: calibre 17’’’ ½, 22 jewels, rhodium-plated, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw, 8 adjustments; chronograph work and split-seconds work on the top plate.

Elegance very fine FF
Rarity very rare RR
Case very good 8 / 10
Dial good 7 / 10
Movement very good 8 / 10
Expert opinion very good