Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 280

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF 25789/2 JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEARTER PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?John Shaeffer, Jump-Hour Répétition- Minutes?, limited No. 4/25, No. 435745, case No. D68101, Ref. 25789/2. Made in a limited edition of 25 examples in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, minute-repeating, jump-hour, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 4 screws, apertures for the jump hour at 12, for the minutes at 6 with painted Arabic numerals and indexes on white revolving discs. Triangular index for the minutes
M. Cal. 2865 G, rhodium-plated, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 34 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 x 32 mm. Thickness 9 mm