Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 623

Audemars Piguet - Platinum - Split-Seconds Chrono - Perpetual Calendar - Minute Repeater Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 265075, case No. D 09595, Ref. 25712 PT. Sold May 10th, 2010. Very fine and rare, large, platinum, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Guarantee, 18K white gold setting pin and booklet.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, hinged case back and cover, push button for the chronograph at 4, the split-seconds at 2, transparent inner back to view the movement, sapphire crystals. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and chronograph divisions with 1/5th seconds track and red Arabic five second/minute markers, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon and lunar calendar. Blued steel cathedral hands. M. Cal. 2860, 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, calibrated straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swanneck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case, dial and movement signed. Diam. 58 mm. Thickness 20 mm.