Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 345

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25806 TI GRANDE COMPLICATION AUTOMATIQUE TITANIUM Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars, Grande Complication Automatique, No. 415477, case No. E 89547, Ref. 25806 TI. Made in 2002. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, self-winding, titanium wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted winding box, two spare dials (one blue and one white) with corresponding sets of hands, original certificate, and signed letter.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals on an outer plain reserve, 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. Luminous white gold feuille 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. 43 mm. THICKNESS 15 mm.