Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 95

Audemars Piguet stainless steel minute repeater No. 01. Audemars Piguet, Genève, John Schaeffer "Jump-Hour, Répétition Minutes", No. 1/3, movement No. 435765, case No. D82715. Produced in a limited edition of 3 examples in the 1990s. Very fine and extremely rare, cushion-shaped, jump-hour, minute-repeating, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatchwith a stainless steel Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, apertures for the jump hour at 12, for the minutes 6 with painted Arabic numerals and indexes on white revolving discs. Triangular index for the minutes. M. Cal. 10''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 33 x 41 mm