424,800 HKD
Pink Gold Lady’s “Repetition Minutes Carillon” Audemars Piguet, “Repetition Minutes Carillon”, No. 7, movement No. 456551, case No. E 16752. Made in a limited number, in 1999. Extremely fine and very rare, carillon minute repeating with three hammers on three gongs, 18K pink gold lady’s wristwatch with very small 22.6 mm movement and 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel and lugs, curved sides. Brushed silver with flinque chapter ring, applied pink gold baton hour indexes and Roman quarter-hour numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Pink gold “baton” hands. Cal. 2873, 22.6 mm., rhodium-plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and five positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator, repeating with three hammers on three gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 28 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Property of an Swiss collector Notes Minute Repeater Carillon The minute repeater carillon is a mechanism of great complexity which strikes on request the hours, the quarters and the minutes. These three indications are obtained by means of three hammer strokes on different gongs: a low pitched one for the hours, a high pitched one for the minutes, plus one of intermediate pitch. Used in conjunction with the others, this last one allow
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
