Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 10

AUDEMARS PIGUET WORLD?S SMALLEST TOURBILLON Audemars Piguet, ?Tourbillon Automatique?, No. 330. Made circa 1990. Very fine and elegant, rectangular ?galbé thin, selfwinding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and oscillating weight and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

HKD 100,000 - 150,000

USD 13,000 - 19,000 / EUR 10,000 - 15,000

Sold: HKD 118,750

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, small teardrop lugs, backwinder, sapphire crystal. D. Yellow gold and mother-of-pearl shell in a sunray pattern, gold dot indexes for the hours, apertures for the visible tourbillon regulator with polished steel bridge at 11 and at 6 for the oscillating weight with the initials ?AP?. Oxidized hands. M. Cal. 11???, hand engraved, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with titanium cage, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring. Crystal and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 29 x 33 mm. Thickness 5.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

The present watch, the world?s first automatic watch with tourbillon, features what was the world?s smallest tourbillon cage at the time of manufacture and the first tourbillon cage to be made from titanium.