Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 332

?Mercedes SSK? Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 339599, case No. C 99745. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, 18K yellow gold, gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystal. D. Transparent, lying on the movement plate, a gold 1930s vintage automobile (possibly Mercedes SSK) within a landscape with a castle. Blued steel "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium- plated, skeletonized and hand-engraved, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 7 mm.