Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 106

"Tourbillon Chronographe" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak, Tourbillon chronograph," No. 570746, case No. F03631, ref 25977 ST. Made in limited production in circa 2000. Very fine and important, large, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with visible one minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding-crown and pushers, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolored black and silver check board pattern with applied luminous white indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, aperture for the tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal 2889, rhodium-plated, "fausses cìtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with oneminute tourbillon regulator, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of a West Coast Collector