Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 26, 2012

LOT 287

AUDEMARS PIGUET JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER Audemars Piguet, Genève, Minute Repeater, No. 44, case No. D 22124. 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.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Oxidized gold 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 fl at balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm