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Louis Audemars gold hunter No. 12.766 with minute repetition, perpetual calendar and independent jumping centre second, lunar phase and age, movement made in about 1876, case later. Cf. Louis-Benjamin Audemars: His Life and Work; Hartmut Zantke; p. 366 Provenance: Collection Hartmut Zantke Unusually heavy and large, engine-turned, stepped, six-piece 18ct gold case with five-piece recessed hinges, big external slide to activate strike-work, small slide at 12 o’clock to stop jumping centre second. Signed “No. 12.766 Louis Audemars BRASSUS & GENÈVE” on dome. Diameter 64 mm. Enamel dial with Roman hour numerals, four subsidiary dials: display for date at 3 o’clock, lunar phases and age at 6 o’clock, days at 9 o’clock and months with leap years at 12 o’clock, blued hour/minute spade steel hands, two small gold hands. Gilded Audemars bridge caliber, two wheel trains, three barrels, winding wheels with stop-work, completely jewelled with crimson rubies, compensation balance with gold screws with blued Bréguet balance-spring, Audemars counterpoised lever (bishop’s crook lever), polished and bevelled steel levers, glazed movement, strike-work with two hammers on two gongs. Functional, very good condition with minimal traces of wear Comment: Complicated watch weighing 384 grams, typical top quality Audemars construction. Functional, very good condition with minimal traces of wear Louis-Benjamin Audemars: His Life and Work; Hartmut Zantke; p. 366 Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.