Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 303

"Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe," No. 600487, case No. F 61345, Ref. 26050. Made in 2005, sold on April 13, 2006. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 180,000 - 220,000

EUR 137,000 - 167,000

Sold: USD 243,600

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché black with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals on an outer reserve, 30-minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the pink gold seconds hand. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2874, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of a West Coast Collector


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It is very rare that a watch combines the functions of tourbillon, minute-repeat, and chronograph. The conjunction of these three complications involves great technical difficulties, particularly so if the case is to have a limited thickness. This watch?s prodigiously complex movement features a totally original construction comprising 665 parts, that was entirely developed within the Manufacture, and was assembled and finished with extreme care.