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Lot Essay
The records of Audemars Piguet record that this wristwatch was originally sold on April 18, 1925.
Audemars Piguet produced approximately thirty-five minute repeating watches from 1906 through the 1920s, the majority intended to be cased as wristwatches. Included in this series is the famed wristwatch made for John Wallace Schaeffer, Vice President of the Allied Chemical Corporation, located in Morristown, New Jersey which was sold at auction in 1989 and is presently in the collection of the Audemars Piguet Museum. Of a similar design to this lot, the Schaeffer watch inspired the limited edition production by Audemars Piguet during the 1990s of the "John Schaeffer" model.
For examples of similar wristwatches produced by Audemars Piguet, see Brunner Pfeiffer-Belli and Wehrli, Audemars Piguet, pp. 254-261.
Audemars Piguet produced approximately thirty-five minute repeating watches from 1906 through the 1920s, the majority intended to be cased as wristwatches. Included in this series is the famed wristwatch made for John Wallace Schaeffer, Vice President of the Allied Chemical Corporation, located in Morristown, New Jersey which was sold at auction in 1989 and is presently in the collection of the Audemars Piguet Museum. Of a similar design to this lot, the Schaeffer watch inspired the limited edition production by Audemars Piguet during the 1990s of the "John Schaeffer" model.
For examples of similar wristwatches produced by Audemars Piguet, see Brunner Pfeiffer-Belli and Wehrli, Audemars Piguet, pp. 254-261.