Audemars Freres Lepine Genève & Brassus Vintage Gold Pocket Watch Rare Collector' 1920'

A fine, rare, very well preserved and in working condition Gold Vintage pocket watch from the prestigious Audemars Frères Genève & Brassus, ca 1920'.

Beautiful dial in perfect collector condition with Lepin open face design

Case: 14k Gold with beautiful Audemars Frères engravings

D: 51 mm, weight: 62g

A Collector, Rare', exceptional unique timepiece

Audemars Frères was a Swiss watchmaking company established in the late 19th century by brothers Hector Adolphe Audemars and Charles Henri Audemars Jr., grandsons of the renowned watchmaker Louis Audemars. Following the bankruptcy of the original Louis Audemars & Fils company in 1885, the brothers founded Audemars Frères in Le Brassus and Geneva.

The firm gained recognition for crafting high-quality timepieces, including complicated pocket watches. Notably, an 18k gold hunter case quarter repeating pocket watch produced by Audemars Frères once belonged to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, highlighting the brand's prominence during its operational years.

The term "Lépine" refers to a style of watch movement named after French watchmaker Jean-Antoine Lépine. Lépine movements are characterized by their open-face design, with the winding stem at 12 o'clock and the seconds sub-dial at 6 o'clock, differing from the hunter-case movements that have a hinged cover and typically position the winding stem at 3 o'clock.