Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 281

Audemars Tourbillon platinum Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars, Tourbillon Automatic", No. 27, case No. D 35929, made circa 2001. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, date, 52-hour power-reserve indication and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the Audemars Piguet fitted wooden box with winding carrousel, magnifying glass, certificate and booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, rounded band, straight lugs, case back with six screws, button for hand-setting on the back, sapphire crystal. D. Transparent, , subsidiary dials with silver rings for the date black and painted radial Roman numerals calendar and power-reserve indication, aperture for the tourbillon regulator under a polished steel three-arm bridge at 6. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2875, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, lateral lever escapement with oneminute tourbillon regulator with titanium cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 10 mm.