Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 428

AUDEMARS PIGUET, GRAND COMPLICATION, PIECE UNIQUE NO. 1/1, 18K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMOND Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Grande Complication," movement No. 415478, case No. E 71337, Ref 25990BC. Made as a unique piece in 1994. Extremely fine and unique, large, minute-repeating, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K white gold and diamond-set wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and an integrated 18K white gold and full diamond-set Audemars Piguet link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

CHF 600,000 - 1,000,000

USD 650,000 - 1,100,000 / EUR 500,000 - 850,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal diamond-set bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed polished stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, transparent case back, co-axial button on the winding crown to operate the split-seconds function, sapphire crystals. D. Diamond-set and mother-of-pearl with sapphire indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and days of the week at 3, the months and leap years at 6, the seconds and date at 9, the weeks of the year at 12 concentric with the aperture for the moon phases. Blackened white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2885, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 52 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hand-engraved gold rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

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Produced in 1994, this one of the fi rst Grande Complication produced by the fi rm. Each piece is unique as most of them were tailored to the individual demands of the customer. Each watch represents the fi nest work of the artisans as well as the impeccable hand-made diamond setting on the case (786 diamonds of 14 different diameters representing 13.68 cts) as for the movement composed of 648 components that takes a watchmaker 6 months to assemble.