1,059,000 HKD
"Grande Sonnerie Carillon" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Grand Sonnerie Carillon", No. D 94769. Made in a limited edition circa 2000. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, "Grande et Petite Sonnerie" striking, minute-repeating, platinum, gentleman’s wrist clockwatch with a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 5 screws, wide bezel, curved band, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. Satiné silver with applied radial white gold baton indexes and Roman quater-hour numerals on a guilloché silver reserve, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. White gold “baton" hands. Notes With a long tradition in the production of highly complicated repeaters, Audemars Piguet developed the first minute-repeating mechanism for a wristwatch only in 1985. While minute repeaters chime the hours, quarters and minutes on 2 gongs with 2 hammers, the present watch - introduced in 1997 after years of research and development - offers the following extended functions: The "Grande Sonnerie" will automatically strike the hours and the quarters at each quater, while, when set to the "Petite Sonnerie" position, it will strike only the quarters. Each function can be activated with the slide at 2, which also offers a "Silent" mode that will deactivate these features if so desired. The "Carillon" mechanism will chime the quarters with 3 hammers on 3 gongs, adding a further tone to the "ding-dong\
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
