Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 151

?Platinum No. 1? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Automatic", No. 1. Made in 1989. Extremely fine and rare, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date, with a white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

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.