Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 323

AUDEMARS PIGUET JUMP HOUR YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet & Co., Jump Hour, No. 32976. Made circa 1926. Very fine and rare, rectangular, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with jump hours.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, snap on case back. D. Matte silver with outer minute track and printed Arabic 5-minute markers, subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12. Blued steel cathedral minute hand. M. Cal. 10???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 36 mm x 26 mm. Thickness 8 mm.