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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 95

Audemars Piguet, ?Répétition Minutes?, No. 1/5. Made in the 1980s. Very fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, skeletonized, 18K gold dress watch. Accompanied by an 18K white, pink and yellow gold Graff guard chain.

C. Three-body, "bassine pincée", polished, transparent case back. D. Transparent sapphire set hour markers, Arabic chapter ring for the seconds. Blued steel ?cathédrale? hands. M. Cal. 17 1/2''', gilt, chased, engraved and skeletonized, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band. Case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm.