Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 169

Audemars Piguet Pink Gold Jump Hour Minute Repeater no. 8 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Minute Repeater, Jump Hour," No. 8, case No. D 71807. Made in a limited number of pieces in circa 1994. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a Certificate of Origin and guarantee.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. D. White with painted Breguet 5-minute numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Black cathedral hand. M. Cal. 2866, copper color, fausses cotes decoration, 32 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.