Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 287

?Grande Complication Automatique? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars ? Grande Complication Automatique", No. 415477, case No. E 89547, Ref. 25806 TI. Made in 2002. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, self-winding, titanium gentleman's wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, two spare dials and a 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. Property of an East Coast Collector