Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 537

JULES AUDEMARS REF. 2582 GRANDE SONNERIE PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, ?Jules Audemars - Grande Sonnerie,? movement No. 404049 case No. D 96361, Ref. 2582. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 1996. Extremely fine and rare, ?Grande et Petite Sonnerie? striking, quarter-repeating, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the Certificate of Authenticity and instruction booklet

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 5 screws, slide at 2 to switch the repeater to strike between hours and quarters or hours only, straight lugs, sapphire crystal.
D. White with applied pink gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute division, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold baton hands.
M. Cal. 2868, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by push-button on the band, slide at 2 to select ?Grande Sonnerie, Petite Sonnerie or Silence? striking functions. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 10 mm.