Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 281

?Stainless Steel Royal Oak? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak - Automatic", No. 9248, case No. F 50878. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and a

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 8 screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal yellow gold screws, screweddown hexagonal winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. White check board pattern with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 37 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.