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Lot Essay
Audemars Piguet have always been famed for their mastery of high complications, unrelentingly striving for both excellence and new innovation in watchmaking.
This great looking titanium Grande Sonnerie Carillon Minute Repeater is a horological masterpiece, with a distinct vintage vibe to the two-tone dial, its simplicity and clean lines belie the incredible complexity of the caliber 2980 movement within. The Grande and Petite Sonnerie striking complication itself is unquestionably the highest of all complications in watchmaking and represents the very finest watchmaking skills. So difficult was this complication to construct that it was not until as late as 1992 that the first ever Grande and Petite Sonnerie wristwatch was successfully created by the watchmaking genius, Philippe Dufour. Audemars Piguet and Philippe Dufour are of course closely linked because Philippe Dufour made AP’s first Grande Sonnerie watches, a now legendary series of five pocket watches made between 1982 and 1988.
This reference 25825Ti, of which the present watch is No. 1, was introduced in 1997 as part of the one hundredth anniversary Jules Audemars collection made in honour of the company’s founder. The Grande Sonnerie Carillon wristwatch continued Audemars Piguet's remarkable tradition in the creation of striking complications. The carillon mechanism strikes the hours and then the quarters in different tones with three hammers and three different gongs. The button placed at 10 o'clock allows the repeater to be activated on demand whenever required.
With this titanium Grande Sonnerie Carillon Minute repeater, Audemars Piguet collectors and those looking for a supreme example of an AP high complication wristwatch of which few others exist, need not search any further.
This great looking titanium Grande Sonnerie Carillon Minute Repeater is a horological masterpiece, with a distinct vintage vibe to the two-tone dial, its simplicity and clean lines belie the incredible complexity of the caliber 2980 movement within. The Grande and Petite Sonnerie striking complication itself is unquestionably the highest of all complications in watchmaking and represents the very finest watchmaking skills. So difficult was this complication to construct that it was not until as late as 1992 that the first ever Grande and Petite Sonnerie wristwatch was successfully created by the watchmaking genius, Philippe Dufour. Audemars Piguet and Philippe Dufour are of course closely linked because Philippe Dufour made AP’s first Grande Sonnerie watches, a now legendary series of five pocket watches made between 1982 and 1988.
This reference 25825Ti, of which the present watch is No. 1, was introduced in 1997 as part of the one hundredth anniversary Jules Audemars collection made in honour of the company’s founder. The Grande Sonnerie Carillon wristwatch continued Audemars Piguet's remarkable tradition in the creation of striking complications. The carillon mechanism strikes the hours and then the quarters in different tones with three hammers and three different gongs. The button placed at 10 o'clock allows the repeater to be activated on demand whenever required.
With this titanium Grande Sonnerie Carillon Minute repeater, Audemars Piguet collectors and those looking for a supreme example of an AP high complication wristwatch of which few others exist, need not search any further.