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Lot Essay
In 1992, Audemars Piguet opened its museum in Le Brassus—a milestone that coincided with the maison's 120th anniversary year in 1995. To mark the occasion, the manufacture produced an exceptionally small series of dress watches inspired by its own archives from the 1930s. The present set unites two of those commemorative pieces: the rectangular Ref. 14918OR and the round Ref. 14932OR, both crafted in 18k pink gold and offered together a set.
The Ref. 14932OR is a round dress watch measuring 31mm, with a silvered dial featuring a rare combination of wedge-shaped indexes and small Arabic numerals at the quarters, with a cross-circled subsidiary seconds at six—a deliberate nod to 1930s watch design . Its defining feature is the "claw lugs," curved teardrop-shaped extensions that give the case a distinctly vintage character . Inside beats the manual-wind Calibre 2085, derived from the Frédéric Piguet 810, a movement respected for its refined finishing and shared with other prestigious Audemars Piguet collections of the period.
The Ref. 14918OR is the rectangular companion piece, sharing the same 18k pink gold construction and the same archival inspiration. Together, the two watches form a coherent tribute to the maison's heritage—one round, one rectangular, both restrained, elegant, and unmistakably Audemars Piguet.
The accompanying certificate confirms that these two watches were sold as a set, and that they were produced to commemorate the opening of the Audemars Piguet Museum. Production is understood to have been limited to just 50 sets.
Sets of this kind rarely surface at auction, particularly with their original documentation intact. For the collector of Audemars Piguet's classical dress watches—or of commemorative pieces tied to the maison's own history—this is a genuinely uncommon opportunity.
The Ref. 14932OR is a round dress watch measuring 31mm, with a silvered dial featuring a rare combination of wedge-shaped indexes and small Arabic numerals at the quarters, with a cross-circled subsidiary seconds at six—a deliberate nod to 1930s watch design . Its defining feature is the "claw lugs," curved teardrop-shaped extensions that give the case a distinctly vintage character . Inside beats the manual-wind Calibre 2085, derived from the Frédéric Piguet 810, a movement respected for its refined finishing and shared with other prestigious Audemars Piguet collections of the period.
The Ref. 14918OR is the rectangular companion piece, sharing the same 18k pink gold construction and the same archival inspiration. Together, the two watches form a coherent tribute to the maison's heritage—one round, one rectangular, both restrained, elegant, and unmistakably Audemars Piguet.
The accompanying certificate confirms that these two watches were sold as a set, and that they were produced to commemorate the opening of the Audemars Piguet Museum. Production is understood to have been limited to just 50 sets.
Sets of this kind rarely surface at auction, particularly with their original documentation intact. For the collector of Audemars Piguet's classical dress watches—or of commemorative pieces tied to the maison's own history—this is a genuinely uncommon opportunity.