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MUSEUM ORIGINAL Louis Audemars Moon phase Calendar silver&gold pocket watch,1870

Estimated price for orientation: 38 000 $

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I am pleased to offer from my private collection this ultimatelly rare antique ORIGINAL Louis Audemars,Brassus Moon phase Calendar silver&gold  pocket watch #10384,c1870's.MUSEUM QUALITY WATCH!This is one of the most impressive antique pocket watch I have ever seen! The watch belonged to General-leutnant Siegfried von Ende and comes from his family estate.The watch has a heavy silver full hunter case with solid gold trim. The front case is decorated with the owner's solid gold monogram SE.The watch comes with an AAPRAISAL CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY for $35,000.00. The watch is top qualty A1 grade lever chronometer-one of the most accuarate mechanical time keeper ever created!
 The movement is all hand finished,special steel screws(untouched by human hand!),long precision  regulator,blue Breguet hairspring,Guillaume balance wheel is fited with gold compensateing weights,solid gold escape wheel,gold train,maximum  jewels,Wolf Teeth winding gear,ruby endstone on balance,hand polished and damascined movement plate!
The watch is in perfect working order-keeping exact time. The watch comes with the matching luxury morocco leather presentation case! If you are not satisfied in any way-money back guarantee. Free shipping to worldwide by DHL overnight courier. History:
Any serious pocket watch collectors with an interest in high grade Swiss pocket watches of the early 19thcentury probably have come across the watchmaking firm of Louis Audemars & Cie., founded in 1811 in the small Jura Village of Le Brassus by Louis-Benjamin Audemars (1782-1833, hereafter L.-B.A) and liquidated in 1885. This enterprise was the first in the Valle de Joux region to produce complete signed watches (while other early local watchmakers focused on supplying parts or subcontracting to the Geneva based houses). The L.-B.A brand was particularly noted for its watches with extra complications, especially is repeater watches, but also such complications as calendars or time zones. At the peak of their success this firm was one of the pillars on which the stellar reputation of the Valle de Joux as a high-grade clock making region was built, a reputation that has survived to the present.
  Louis-Benjamin Audemars was born on 24 May 1782 in Le Brassus. He completed an apprenticeship with his later brother-in-law Philippe Samuel Meylan, whose company he took over in 1811. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for two years at Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris, where he became his master-student. Inspired by Breguet's inventiveness, Louis-Benjamin Audemars became one of the pioneers of Swiss watchmaking. Audemars first produced elaborate and complicated mechanisms, later also complete, mostly complicated watches in excellent quality. Later on the house Louis Audemars delivered complicated clock movements and watches to Breguet and other luxury manufacturers, for example Le Roy in Paris, A. Lange & Söhne or Dürrstein in Glashütte. By making these complicated calibers, Louis-Benjamin Audemars became one of the most important watchmakers of his time in Switzerland.  Louis-Benjamin Audemars married twice and received a total of 12 children. François Élisée and Auguste Audemars were trained as watchmakers. Louis-Benjamin died on 21 May 1833 in Le Brassus. In the same year, his sons decided to continue the company of their father under the name Louis Audemars & Fils under the technical direction of the oldest sons. The brothers Henri Hector, Eugène François and Charles Henri were probably trained as watchmakers in their own company. There were established branches worldwide: 1835 in Geneva, 1835 and 1849 camp in London and Paris, 1858 then a branch in New York. The warehouse, opened in Vienna in 1865, also served the Russian market. From 1880, Pavel Bure took over the representation of the Louis Audemars Company in Russia. Representations in Prague, China and Hong Kong followed. The company produced all the necessary parts and machines by hand, and the opinion prevailed that an always high quality could be ensured by trained homeworkers, who in turn passed on their knowledge to their children. Due to the progressive mechanical production, the hand-made watches were too expensive and the company got problems to sell their products on the market.  In 1885 they became bankrupt and closed. The brothers founded their own companies which exploited the estate and resold the movements and already produced watches under their own names. Audemars won many prizes worldwide, including Med. 1st Class London 1851. Bronze Medal New York 1853, 1st Class Medal France 1856 and 1863. Paris 1855, London 1862, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Gold in Paris 1878, Sidney 1879. In addition, Audemars was appointed Royal Court Supplier of the Russian Czar's Court. 
Inventions:
1838: the winding and setting of the watch over the counterpart (remontoir). This mechanism has always been improved and re-patented. 
1860: Perpetual calendar, modern style. 
1867: an crown wind mechanism for three barrels. 
1867: Participation in the development of the famous bow set mechanism by J. Jürgensen. 
1873: Watch with time zone selection (Worldtime) 1876 30mm Large self-striking Watch. 1878 the world's smallest watch with 18mm diameter.