$234,000
Audemars Piguet Platinum Tourbillon Minute Repeater Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars - Tourbillon - Minute Repeater - Chronograph, No. 678796, case No. F 94174. Made circa 2007 and sold in 2008. Extremely fine and rare, large, water resistant, minute-repeating, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, re-issued certificate and instruction booklet. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals on an outer satiné reserve, 30-minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 2874, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 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:
2009-12-09
