Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 153

?Star Wheel Platinum? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Automatic", Ref. 25720PT. Made in 1993. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color white and guilloché blued steel, the hour graduation on three rotating translucent sapphire discs, each with four painted black stylized hour indicators, on top, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, at the center, a rhodium-plated wheel with three arms, carrying the spring-loaded rotating star wheel sapphire discs. M. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.