$222,000
Platinum Grande Complication Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars – Grande Complication Automatic," No. 418105, case No. E 71354, Ref. 25806 PT. Made circa 2006. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with indication of the weeks, moon phases and an integrated platinum Audemars Piguet link bracelet with deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, straight lugs, coaxial push button in the crown for the split-seconds function, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Guilloche silver with applied radial white gold Breguet numerals on a plain reserve, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, 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 surrounding the aperture for the moon phases. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 2885, rhodium-plated, oeil-deperdrix 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes What is a Perpetual Calendar? A perpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the mo
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-12-09
