Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 89

AUDEMARS PIGUET JUMP HOUR, NO. 87, MINUTE REPEATER Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Minute Repeater, Jump Hour," No. 87, case No. D 22167. 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 a fitted box, 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 Breguet 5-minute numerals, outer minute track, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Black 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.