2,780,000 HKD
Audemars Piguet Cabinet Watch No. 5 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Millenary Perpetual Calendar with Deadbeat Seconds, Power-Reserve Indication", movement No. 678226, case No. F 93916, Ref. 26066PT. Made in a limited edition of only 20 pieces circa 2006, the fifth watch in the “Tradition of Excellence” cabinet series. Sold on April 8, 2008. Extremely fine and rare, large, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap-year indication, deadbeat seconds, dual barrels, new Audemars Piguet escapement with visible balance with dual opposing balance springs, 7-day power-reserve indication and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin and instruction book. Three-body, massive, oval, polished and brushed, stepped bezel and lugs, tonneau-shaped button at 2 for advancing the date hand, months and days of the week correctors in the band, transparent back with 7 screws, sapphire crystals. 18K white gold, offset, brushed with applied blued radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost red date numerals on a frosted reserve, aperture for the leap-year between 12 and 1, apertures for the months and days of the week above and below the dial, subsidiary dials for the deadbeat seconds and the power-reserve indication, visible escapement. Blued skeleton hands. Cal. 2899, hand-finished, rhodium plated with fausses cotes decoration, 42 jewels, dual barrels, Audemars Piguet lubrication-free single-impuls
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
