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

LOT 417

?Platinum No. 1? Audemars Piguet, "Automatic", No. 1, case No. C54133. Made in 1989. Very fine and rare, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date, with a white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped convex bezel with signature, flat sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes, outer tachometer graduation to 500 units/hour, subsidiary dials for the 12 hour, 30-minute registers and the constant seconds, aperture for the date. White 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. 40.5 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Approx. overall length: 190 mm.