Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 223

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel - Chronographe", case No. C 97918. Made in very few examples in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped rounded bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers in red, the days of the week, of the month, the months, the leap year in black, the moon phases in gold and blue. Pink gold ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.