Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 234

"Jump Hour - Répétition Minutes" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jump Hour - Répétition Minutes", No. 39, case No. D 22110. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minuterepeating, jump hour, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals for the minutes, aperture below 12 for the jump hour indication, subsidiary seconds dial. Black oxidized gold "cathédrale" hand. M. Cal. 2865, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 29 x 39 mm. Thickness 8 mm.