Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 237

"Piece Unique" Audemars Piguet, John Schaeffer, "Répétition Minutes Quantième Perpetuel," No. 442827, case No. E 11593. Made as a "Piece Unique" in 1998. Extremely fine and unique, cushion-shaped, astronomic, minute-repeating, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original wooden box and certificate of Authenticity and Exclusivity.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 4 screws, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Yellow with black Breguet numerals and round indexes, outer minute graduation, subsidiary dials for the days of the month and the months, of the week, the leap year and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Burnished gold "cathédrale" hands. M. Cal. 2866 Q, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.