Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 392

?Grande Complication Automatique? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars ? Grande Complication Automatique", No. 415422, case No. E 19886, Ref. 25806 PT. Made circa 2005. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, 2 extra dials and an open certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché blue with luminous Arabic numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and days of the week at 3, the months and leap years at 6, the seconds and date at 9, the weeks of the year at 12 concentric with the aperture for the moon phases. Luminous white gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2885, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 52 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hand-engraved gold rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm.