Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 70

Audemars Piguet - Platinum - Tourbillon Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Automatic Tourbillon with Power Reserve," No. 49, case No. D 56719. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, back-winder, platinum wristwatch with visible one minute tourbillon regulator, 60-hour power reserve indication, date and an 18K white gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a fitted Audemars Piguet box and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 6 screws, brushed flat band, rounded stepped bezel, teardrop lugs, back winder, sapphire crystal. D. White with off-center subsidiary dials; at 12: hours and minutes with painted radial Roman numerals, at 3: days of the month, at 6: aperture for the tourbillon cage, at 9: 60-hour power-reserve graduation. Oxidized gold feuille hands for the time, blued steel epée hands for the date and power reserve. m. Cal. 2875, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 41 jewels, titanium tourbillon cage, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 10 mm.