Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 414

AUDEMARS PIGUET, JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER NO. 6, PLATINUM Audemars Piguet, "Minute Repeater, Jump Hour", No. 6, movement No. 398924, case No. D22177, Ref. PT25723. Made in a limited number of pieces, sold on December 8th, 1997. Very fine and very rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, platinum wristwatch with a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original wooden box, Certificate of Origin and booklet.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted black Breguet numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12, outer minute track. Black gold cathedral hand. M. Cal. 2865, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 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, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm.