Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 242

"Quantième Perpétuel ? Audemars Piguet, Genève "Quantième Perpétuel Automatique No. 772", movement No. 226040, case No. B 73063. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, curved triangular lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness: 7 mm.