Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 179

"Royal Oak" Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak - Day and Date?, Automatic, No. 1764. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with day and date, moon phases and an integrated, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet bracelet and deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 hexagonal white gold nuts for the 8 screws of the case back, screwed-down hexagonal windingcrown, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite "Clous-de-Paris" decorated with applied luminous yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary yellow gold ring dials for the date and days of the week, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous yellow gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 2825, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm.