Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 150

?Platinum No. 1? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Automatic", No. 1, for Asprey. Made in 1988. Extremely fine and rare, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date, with a massive platinum Audemars Piguet bracelet "à grosses mailles".

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel with signature, flat sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date, outer tachometer graduation to 500 units/hour. White gold "Bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 51 jewels, 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. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Approx. overall length: 190 mm.