$300,000
Audemars Piguet Platinum Skeletonized Tourbillon Minute Repeater Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars, case No. F 94185. Made in 2009. Extremely fine and very rare, large, platinum, skeletonized, minute-repeating, wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, 30 minute register and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and magnifying glass. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Sapphire with white outer minute track, Arabic five-minute numerals, outermost 1/5th seconds, subsidiary register dial, seconds chapter ring with visible one-minute tourbillon carrying seconds hand under polished bridge. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 2874, skeletonized, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-10