$299,600
"Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe," No. 600490, case No. F 61371, Ref. 26050PT. Made in 2006, sold on July 25, 2007. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round-button chronograph, register and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box, loupe, and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. “Guilloché” silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals on an outer plain 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 côtes" 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. From the collection of a West Coast Gentleman Notes It is very rare that a wristwatch combines the functions of tourbillon, minute-repeater and chronograph. The conjunction of these three complication
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-09-26
