Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 134

Pink Gold, "Royal Oak Automatic" Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Automatic", No. 0047, No. 572856, case No. F 12214, Ref. 260220R. Made in 2004. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and the Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, solid, 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. Silver, "clous-de-Paris" decoration with applied luminous square pink gold, 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 pink gold "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, selfcompensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.