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Lot Essay
With Audemars Piguet Certificat d'Authenticité et d'Exclusivité, instruction manual, setting pin, original wooden veneered fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
According to the Archives of Audemars Piguet, the present watch was sold to the American market in December 2000.
Audemars Piguet introduced the Tradition of Excellence collection in 1999. The limited series of timepieces consists of eight individual models with 20 examples of each manufactured, all cased in platinum and fitted with a one minute tourbillon regulator. To date, five models out of the eight planned were released. Each of the eight models focuses on a particular horological feature and pays tribute to the craftsmanship of the original founders of Audemars Piguet who became masters in the art of producing complicated timepieces and thus setting the finest tradition of Audemars Piguet for their successor. The Tradition of Excellence collection is using classical design elements to showcase high watchmaking complications.
The present watch, belonging to the second series is housed in the famed Jules Audemars circular case. It features a minute repeater on two hammers, a perpetual calendar with an unusual indication of leap year through an aperture unveiling one to four lines to represent the full leap year cycle and enhanced by an oversized date indication. The dial combination including engine-turned pattern and curved numerals confers the watch a modern look.
Kept by its first owner until now, a distinguished collector with a taste for the finest and most complicated pieces, the present example is preserved in excellent condition with all the care that is required for such a rare and important piece and demonstration of high watchmaking.
Tradition d'Excellence No. 2 is described and illustrated in Audemars Piguet by François Chaille, Edition Flammarion, p. 180-181.
According to the Archives of Audemars Piguet, the present watch was sold to the American market in December 2000.
Audemars Piguet introduced the Tradition of Excellence collection in 1999. The limited series of timepieces consists of eight individual models with 20 examples of each manufactured, all cased in platinum and fitted with a one minute tourbillon regulator. To date, five models out of the eight planned were released. Each of the eight models focuses on a particular horological feature and pays tribute to the craftsmanship of the original founders of Audemars Piguet who became masters in the art of producing complicated timepieces and thus setting the finest tradition of Audemars Piguet for their successor. The Tradition of Excellence collection is using classical design elements to showcase high watchmaking complications.
The present watch, belonging to the second series is housed in the famed Jules Audemars circular case. It features a minute repeater on two hammers, a perpetual calendar with an unusual indication of leap year through an aperture unveiling one to four lines to represent the full leap year cycle and enhanced by an oversized date indication. The dial combination including engine-turned pattern and curved numerals confers the watch a modern look.
Kept by its first owner until now, a distinguished collector with a taste for the finest and most complicated pieces, the present example is preserved in excellent condition with all the care that is required for such a rare and important piece and demonstration of high watchmaking.
Tradition d'Excellence No. 2 is described and illustrated in Audemars Piguet by François Chaille, Edition Flammarion, p. 180-181.