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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007
LOT 466
Pink Gold ?Star Wheel Millenary? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Millenary", No. E 26861, Ref. 25898BA. Made in a limited edition of 75 examples in pink gold to mark the 125th anniversary of Audemars Piguet in 2000. Very fine, rare and unusual, large, horizontal oval, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with wandering hours, galuchat strap and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a certificate.
CHF 15,000 - 18,000
EUR 9,000 - 11,000 / USD 12,000 - 15,000
Sold: CHF 25,960
C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, the back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Sand-finished gray and off-white, the Arabic hours on three transparent sapphire discs, each with four painted numerals, on the right a sector indicating the 59-minutes in white painted Arabic numerals and indexes underlined by an off-white painted sector over which the hours pass, at the center, a steel wheel with three arms, each ended by a self-rotating screw activating the discs. M. Cal. 2224, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor segment.Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41 x 37 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 2 |
Very good |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
Notes
The Star Wheel Millenary
(Ref. 25898) was created in 2000 to commemorate Audemars Piguet's 125th anniversary in 2000. The Audemars Piguet Star Wheel uses a very unconventional method of time indication. Three transparent sapphire disks, or star wheels, are each inscribed with four hour indicators and attached to a rotating center wheel. As the assembly turns, the current hour indicator is rotated into view and then passed across a 120-degree minutes sector. The time is read by noting the visible hour pointing to the current minute.