Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006
LOT 163
?Platinum Minute-Repeating Perpetual Calendar, No. 1? Audemars Piguet, ?Répétition-Minutes Quantième Perpétuel?, No. 001. Made in 1993. Very fine and rare, astronomic, platinum minute-repeating, keyless dress watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Accompanied by the original fitted box and manual.
USD 40,000 - 60,000
EUR 30,000 - 47,000
Sold: USD 112,800
C. Three-body, ?bassine et filet?, polished curved bezel, brushed band, hinged bow, polished back engraved with the number. Glazed platinum rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with 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. 52 mm.
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