Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 74

?Skeleton? Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 154079, case No. B 1622. Made in the 1970s. Very fine, keyless, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Three-body, solid, brushed, rounded bezel, integral bow, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent. Blued steel "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 5017, gilt-brass, skeletonized and hand-engraved, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm.