Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 190

"Jump Hour - Répétition Minutes" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Répétition Minutes", No. 19, case No. D 22090. Made in a limited number of examples in 1994. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, 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 secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour. Black "cathedral" hand. M. Cal. 2866, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm.