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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007
LOT 9
Yellow Gold Skeletonized "John Shaeffer" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "John Shaeffer", "Répétition Minutes", No. 7, movement No. 412839, case No. D 48863. Made in limited numbers in 1995. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.
HKD 270,000 - 320,000
USD 35,000 - 42,000 / EUR 27,000 - 32,000
Sold: HKD 401,200
C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave and curved lugs, transparent case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent crystal to expose the movement with black Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Blackened gold "cathédrale" hands. M. Cal. 2866, rhodium plated, hand engraved and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 33 x 33 mm. Thickness 9 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector
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Grade: |
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Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 2 |
Very good |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
Notes
The original Shaeffer watch is published in Audemars Piguet by G.L. Brunner, C. Pfeiffer-Belli and M.K. Wehrli, p. 255. The first Audemars Piguet watch with minute repeater was created in 1907 for the famous American industrialist John Shaeffer who wanted to personalize his watch by having Audemars Piguet position the letters of his name on the hour markers. The historic tonneaushaped case has been reintroduced by Le Brassus manufacture, revising its dimensions slightly wider and a little rounder than the original.