$82,600
"Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 600117, case No. F 34757, 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 white gold 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 steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, 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.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07