$335,000
"Cabinet Watch" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars", "Tourbillon Répétition Chronographe Rattrapante", case No. E 25836. Made in a limited edition of only 20 examples in 1999, the first watch in the “Tradition of Excellence” cabinet series. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, co-axial round button split-seconds chronograph, register and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Satiné silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals on an outer "guilloché" reserve, 30-minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the seconds hand. White gold "feuille" hands. Cal. 2876, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with steel cage with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Notes Cabinet Watch This watch is the first watch in Audemars Piguet “Tradition d’Excellence” or “Cabinet Series”. This series was a very limited edition of 8 highly complicated watches, each one limited to only 20 examples. Introduced in
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-12-07
