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Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 132

Timekeeper with 10 ComplicationsAudemars Piguet, Brassus, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation", case No. E 25354. A limited edition produced each year since 2000.Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise, sunset, set for the city of Geneva, equation of time, 40 hours autonomy and 18K pink gold deployant clasp.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent back, engraved bezel with scale for equation of time and Geneva's latitude of 12 h 36', straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. black with applied tritium-coated lines and pink gold triangular indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the days of the month, of the week on the 6, 12-hour sunrise dial on the 9, 24-hour sunset dial on the 3, aperture for the leap year on the 1, the months and the aperture for the moon phases on the 12. "Alpha" triium-coated gold hands. M. Cal. 2120/2808, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 41 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, engraved rotor with a 21K gold segment.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm.