Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
New York, Dec 11, 2014
LOT 134
AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25866 JULES AUDEMARS GRANDE COMPLICATION PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars", Minute Repeater Split Second Chronograph Perpetual Calendar, case No. E89587. Ref. 26270. Made circa 2008. Extremely fine and very rare, large, astronomic, minute-repeating 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button split second chronograph, 30 minute register, perpetual calendar, leap year indication, moon phases and a 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, magnifying glass and setting pin.
USD 150,000 - 200,000
HKD 1,165,000 - 1,550,000 / CHF 145,000 - 190,000
Sold: USD 195,750
Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent snap on case back, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with applied pink gold Breguet numerals on a plain reserve, outer 1/5th seconds/ minute division, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and days of the week at 3, the months and leap years at 6, the seconds and date at 9, the weeks of the year at 12 concentric with the aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 2885, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 52 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hand-engraved gold rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.
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