Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 170

?Repetition Minutes, No. 1? Audemars Piguet, ?Répétition-Minutes, No. 1. Made in a limited edition in 1983. Very fine and rare, slim, 18K yellow gold minute-repeating, keyless dress watch.

C. Three-body, ?variée?, polished and brushed, stepped curved bezel, brushed band, hinged bow, brushed back engraved with the manufacturer?s dedication.
D. Matte silvered, painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel ?cathedrale? hands.
M. 18''', rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? and "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, movement and case signed. Diam. 48 mm.