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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 133

?White Gold Royal Oak Automatic? Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak - Automatic", No. 135, No. 521075, case No. E 53345, Ref 25960. Made in 2002. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a white gold Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and the Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws, case back with 8 screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding-crown and nuts for the chronograph buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Copper-colored, "clous-de-Paris" decoration with applied luminous steel square indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 37 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.