Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 156

?Stainless-steel Royal Oak Skeletonized? Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak, Quantième Perpétuel Automatique Squelette?, No. 0536, case No. F 38109. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, octagonal, astronomic, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant to 2 atm., stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and a stainless steel Royal Oak bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C .Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed white gold nuts screwed to 8 screws on the transparent case back, hexagonal screwed-down winding-crown, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized, subsidiary ring dials for the days of the month, the week, the months and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Black oxidized gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2120, hand-engraved and skeletonized, rhodiumplated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, engraved 18K yellow gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 10 mm.