Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 319

AUDEMARS PIGUET PLATINUM & DIAMOND GRANDE & PETITE SONNERIE & REPEATING - EXCEPTIONAL WRISTWATCH Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Grande et Petite Sonnerie au passage et répétition des quarts", movement No. 404083, case No. E 1377. Made in very few examples, circa 2000. Extremely fine and important, water-resistant, Grande et Petite Sonnerie, platinum wristwatch, the case set with a total of 399 round white diamonds, striking the hours and the quarters and with quarter-repeating, diamond-set dial and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet fitted box.

CHF 80,000 - 120,000

HKD 670,000 - 1,000,000 / USD 86,000 - 130,000

Sold: CHF 83,750

Three-body, polished and brushed, entirely set with 399 round white diamonds, solid case back with 5 screws, straight curved lugs, slide at 2 for selection of the Grande Sonnerie and Petite Sonnerie or Silence, push-button for the quarter-repeater at 10, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied baguette and round diamond hour indexes and diamond-set Arabic quarter-hour numerals, guilloche subsidiary seconds. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 2868, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on two gongs by means of a push-button on the band.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case, and movement signed. DIAM. 39 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm. According to Audemars Piguet less than five pieces were produced.