Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 372

AUDEMARS PIGUET, JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, "Minute Repeater, Jump Hour", No. 43, case No. D22123, Ref. BA5723. Sold on June 30th, 1996. Very fine and very rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the certificate, warranty booklet, service guarantee, booklet and original fitted box.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws with engraved initials, sapphire crystal. White with yellow gold Breguet numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12, outer minute track. Black gold cathedral hand. Cal. 2865, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band, index regulator.