Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 17

"Chronograph Automatic" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chronograph Automatic", No. C 55125. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, "cyclops" aperture for the date. Blued steel ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 2126/2840, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor sector. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 11 mm.