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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 471

Platinum "Jump-Hour, Répétition Minutes? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Répétition Minutes", No. 44, case No. D 22224. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, rectangular, jump hour, minute-repeating platinum wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, inclined bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Matte white with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour. Black "cathedral" hand. M. Cal. 2865, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 32 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 activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 9 mm.