Audemars Piguet’s “Complicated Wristwatches” jumps ahead to 1923, but before then, AP actually took the watch back from Asprey on exchange, “restored it to perfect condition” (according to the notes at the time), had it readjusted by an E. Nicole, and returned the watch to sellable stock by June 1915. According to the same register, the movement WAS next revised for Gübelin in 1923. A letter, sent April 18, 1923, to casemaker Eggly & Co., stated that it was “extremely urgent” to recase the watch with “utmost care” in 18-carat green gold and platinum. By then, the watch had started to take its final form, and despite asking for this and lugs with “hoops,” the watch was finally delivered with the following designs:
“Total diameter 31.5 mm on sides. Fineness and assay: 18k gold and platinum. Shape: Cubist cushion, platinum bezel, without cuvette, tortoise lugs, polished. Dial, size: striped finish [barely legible], 22mm enamel minute track. Hands: [barely legible] Breguet hour markers in gray relief. Engraving: Audemars Piguet. Miscellaneous: gray leather strap with a movable gray gold buckle.” The minute repeater slide also runs in the reverse direction.