Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 110

?Répétition Minutes à Quantième Perpétuel? Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Jules Audemars - Répétition Minutes à Quantième Perpétuel?, No. 442838, case No. E 26652, Ref. 2591OR. Sold on May 12, 2001. Extremely fine and rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a special fitted wooden box, 18K gold setting pin, 2 extra straps and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. ?Satiné? silver with applied pink gold bâton indexes and Roman numerals on a "guilloché" reserve, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, date, the months and the leap year indication, the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2866, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.