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.

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.