Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...
New York, Dec 09, 2009
LOT 197
Audemars Piguet Platinum Tourbillon Minute Repeater Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars - Tourbillon - Minute Repeater - Chronograph, No. 678796, case No. F 94174. Made circa 2007 and sold in 2008. Extremely fine and rare, large, water resistant, minute-repeating, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, re-issued certificate and instruction booklet.
USD 200,000 - 300,000
CHF 200,000 - 300,000 / EUR 135,000 - 200,000
Sold: USD 234,000
C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals on an outer satiné reserve, 30-minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2874, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 13 mm.
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Case: 1 |
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Movement: 1 |
As new |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
