Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 163

Audemars Piguet Jump Hour - Minute Repeater Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Répétition Minutes", No. 52, case No. D 22132. Made in a limited number of pieces in 1994. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Black cathedral hand. M. Cal. 2866, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm.