Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 57

Répétition Minutes Carillon No. 3 Audemars Piguet, ?Repetition Minutes Carillon?, No. 3, movement No. 456535, case No. D 87871, Ref. 25818OR. Made in a limited number, in 1999. Extremely fine and very rare, carillon minute repeating with three hammers on three gongs, 18K pink gold lady?s wristwatch with very small 22.6 mm movement and 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel and lugs, curved sides. D. Brushed silver with flinque chapter ring, applied pink gold baton hour indexes and Roman quarterhour numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2873, 22.6 mm, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and five positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator, repeating with three hammers on three gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 28 mm. Thickness 10 mm.