Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 320

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26072 OR JULES AUDEMARS TOURBILLON & 10 MINUTE REPEATER PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars - Tourbillon 10 Minute Repeater, No. 07 / 10, case No. E 99947, Ref. 26072 OR. Made in limited edition of ten pieces in 2006. Extremely fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original wooden box, original certificate, Certificate of Authenticity and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, straight lugs, case back with porthole to view the tourbillon, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché silver with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals on an off-center plain reserve, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the blued steel second hand. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2882, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.