Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 302

Audemars Piguet Cabinet Watc h No. 2 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Tourbillon Répétition Minutes Quantième Perpetuel", No. 2, movement No. 480796, case No. E 43329, Ref. 25948PT. Made in a limited edition of only 20 pieces circa 2000, the second watch in the ?Tradition of Excellence? cabinet series. Sold on May 17, 2001. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin and instruction book.

HKD 1,700,000 - 2,200,000

USD 220,000 - 280,000 / EUR 170,000 - 220,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight and curved lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals and dot indexes, in center vertical fausses cotes decoration, subsidiary dials for the days of the week and the months, apertures for the large 2-digit date, the leap years and the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the seconds hand. Black oxydized gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2869, 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 13.5 mm.


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Cabinet Series This lot is the second edition in Audemars Piguet?s ?Tradition d?Excellence? or ?Cabinet Series?. Introduced in 1999, the ?Cabinet Series? will comprise 8 editions of highly complicated watches, each reference made in only 20 platinum examples. The series focuses on the different aspects of ?Haute Horlogerie?. The name ?Cabinet Series? is derived from the impressive, specially made wooden cabinet with compartments that is included with the series and houses all 8 of these exceptional horological works of art.
List of the Cabinet Series 1999-2006: - Jules Audemars Cabinet 1, minute repeater, tourbillon and split-seconds chronograph in a a limited edition of 20 pieces in platinum. - Jules Audemars Cabinet 2, (the present lot), made in a limited edition of 20 examples in in platinum. - Edward Piguet Cabinet 3, tourbillon mechanism, chronograph with 70 hours power reserve display, rectangular, in a limited edition of 20 examples in platinum. - Royal Oak Cabinet 4, tourbillon, chronograph with double ten-day power reserve indication in a limited edition of 20 examples in platinum. - Millenary Cabinet 5, perpetual calendar with deadbeat seconds and power reserve indication in a limited edition of 20 examples in platinum (see lot 327)