Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 584

Audemars Piguet Jules Tourbillon Automatic Pink Gold Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Jules Audemars Automatic Tourbillon with Power Reserve?, No. 6, case No. D 87881. Sold on 2nd, August 2003. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 60-hour power-reserve indication, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Audemars Piguet fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin, instruction booklet, key, extra strap and magnifying glass.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 6 screws, brushed flat band, rounded stepped bezel, straight lugs, back winder, sapphire crystal. D. White with off-center subsidiary dials; at 12: hours and minutes with applied pink gold Arabic numeral and baton indexes, at 3: days of the month, at 6: aperture for the tourbillon cage, at 9: 60-hour power-reserve graduation. Pink gold baton hands for the time, blued steel epée hands for the date and power reserve. M. Cal. 2875, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 41 jewels, titanium tourbillon cage, monometallic balance, self compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm Property of a Japanese Collector