Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 24, 2003

LOT 255

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars", "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 543587, case No. E 67808, Ref. 25909BA. Production of this reference started in 1999.Very fine and very rare, large, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. satiné silver with applied white gold Roman numerals on an outer "guilloché" silver reserve, 30 minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the seconds hand. "Feuille-Skeleton" white gold hands. M. Cal. 2879/1, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minte tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm.