Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 293

AUDEMARS PIGUET, JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER NO. 23, PLATINUM Audemars Piguet, ?Minute Repeater, Jump Hour?, No. 23, case No. D22203, Ref. PT25723. Sold on August 18th, 1998. Very fine and very rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, platinum wristwatch with an 18k white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the certificate of authenticity, warranty book, booklet and original fitted box. Property of The Original Owner

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws with engraved initials, 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. DIAM. 38 x 29 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm.