Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 128

"Edward Piguet Tourbillon" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Edward Piguet Tourbillon", No. 3, movement No. 472710, case No. E 42567Ref. 25843OR. Made in 2001. Very fine and very rare, rectangular, skeletonized, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, transparent case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with painted black Arabic numerals and indexes, at 6 aperture for the visible tourbillon cage under a polished steel bridge, carrying the subsidiary seconds hand. Black "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2881, skeletonized and hand-engraved, coppercolored, 19 jewels, lateral lever escapement with 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. Dim. 29 x 49 mm. Thickness 13 mm.