$100,150
"Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 555920, case No. F 10515, Ref. 26010BC. Made circa 2005. Very fine and very rare, large, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with applied black Roman numerals on an outer satiné silver reserve, 30-minute register at 3, subsidiary seconds dial at 9, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6. White gold "feuille-skeleton" hands. Cal. 2889, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arm carriage, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector Notes The Jules Audemars watch collection from Audemars Piguet is a beautiful tribute to Jules Audemars, the watchmaker who co-founded the Audemars Piguet watch manufactory in 1875 and dedicated himself to the creation of the world’s finest watches. The Grande Complication immediately became the tradem
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-06-14
