Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 52

"Jules Audemars Chronograph" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars Chronograph", Ref. 25859, case No. E 16446. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and triangular indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer ring for the 1/5th seconds graduation. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2226/2841, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.