Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 160

?Repetition Minutes Quantieme Perpetuel, No. 1? Audemars Piguet, ?Répétition- Minutes Quantième Perpetuel?, No. 001. Made in 1984. Very fine and rare, slim, astronomic, 18K yellow gold minute-repeating, keyless dress watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar.

C. Three-body, ?variée?, polished and brushed stepped curved bezel, brushed band, hinged bow, brushed back engraved with the manufacturer?s dedication. D. Silvered, painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, days of the week and date, subsidiary seconds with lunar calendar, aperture for the moon-phases. Blued steel ?cathedrale? hands. M. 18''', rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, movement and case signed. Diam. 50 mm.