Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 18

"Quantième Perpetuel" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpetuel", No. 15, movement No. 390825, case No. D 51122. Made circa 2000. Very fine and rare, mid-size, square, astronomic, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 4 screws, teardrop lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied white gold bâton indexes, subsidiary dials for the day, date and month, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Black oxydized gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2003/2, engraved movement frame, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring. Dial and movement signed. Case numbered. Dim. 27 x 27 mm. Thickness 7 mm.