Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 139

"Dual Time" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Dual Time? Automatic, No. 332896, case No. C 68406. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, two-time-zone, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with date and 48 hour powerreserve.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with printed radial Roman numeral and yellow gold dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the second time-zone at 6 and the date at 2, graduation for the up-and-down indication between 7 and 11. Blued steel "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 2129, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Pull-out crown: first position to set hour hand only on lower dial, second position to set the time on both dials. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.