Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 301

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, self-winding, platinum 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 certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. White with applied white gold baton indexes and dots, 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 Various Owners