Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 12

"Quantième Perpétuel Automatique" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel Automatique", No. 681, case No. B 63027. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, curved triangular lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 2120/2, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 36 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 segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.