Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 88

AUDEMARS PIGUET JUMP HOUR, NO. 88, MINUTE REPEATER Audemars Piguet, Genève, Minute Repeater, No. 88, case No. D 22168. Made in a limited number of pieces in 1994. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the certificate of origin and guarantee.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Oxidized gold cathedral hand. M. Cal. 2866, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm.