Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 402

Pink Gold, "Quantième Perpétuel - Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, "Quantième Perpétuel- Chronographe", No. 348433, case No. C 97962. Made in a very few examples in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a solar winding box, certificate, setting pin and a VHS direction for use.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped rounded bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, tachometer graduated to 500 unite/hour. Subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers in red, the days of the week, of the month, the months, the leap year in black, the moon phases in gold and blue. Pink gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 51 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 segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of Various Owners