Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 180

?Royal Oak" Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak," Automatic, No. 693, case No. E-4771. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an integrated stainless steel link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal gold screws and nuts, screwed-down hexagonal buttons and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous indexes, subsidiary guilloché black dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. White luminous "baton" hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.