Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 259

?Grande Complication? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars ? Grande Complication Automatique - Répétition Minutes - Chronographe Rattrapante", No. 415422, case No. E 61248, Ref. 25806 PT. Made circa 2004. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a special fitted wooden box, an additional dial and hands and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Charcoal with applied white gold bâton indexes, "guilloché" subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and the days of the week at 3, the months and the leap year indication at 6, the seconds and the date at 9, the weeks of the year at 12, aperture for the moon phases. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2885, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 52 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, skeletonized gold rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.