Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 322

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25876OR TOURBILLON PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève , " Canapé Tourbillon", No. 21/25, No. 472689, case No. D 95486, Ref. 25876OR. Made in a limited edition of 25 examples in 2000. Very fine, very rare and unusual, rectangular, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the fitted box, certificate of origin and key.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, cylindrical and curly lugs, "bombé" crystal. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and indexes, at 6 aperture for the visible tourbillon cage under a polished steel bridge. "Bâton" pink gold hands. Cal. 2871, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with titanium cage and 3 equidistant polished arms, monometallic balance with screws, adjusted to heat, cold an5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.