Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 436

Grande Complication Minute Repeating, No. 1 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars ? Grande Complication Automatique," No.1, case No. D 73269, Ref. 25866 OR. Made circa 2007. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a large fitted mahogany box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. White with applied pink 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, outer minute / seconds division with five Arabic numerals. Blackened 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 two gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm.