$243,600
"Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Chronographe", case No. F 48116. Made circa 2005. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and a platinum 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 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 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.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07
