Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 414

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars", "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 543562, case No. E 68343, Ref. 25909. Production of this reference started in 1999.Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and an 18K yellow 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 yellow gold Roman numerals on an outer "guilloché" silver reserve, 30 minute register at 3, aperture for the tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the seconds hand. White gold "Feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2879/1, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulatorwith 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.