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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 467

?London 12 h 00? Audemars Piguet, Geneve, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 212074, case No. E50903, Ref. 25934BC. Made in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset for the city of London, equation of time and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with five screws, engraved bezel with graduation for the equation of time and London?s latitude of 12 h 00?, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. "Guilloché" anthracite with applied luminous markers and white gold triangular indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week at 6, 12-hour sunrise dial at 9 and 24-hour sunset dial at 3, aperture for the leap year at 1, the months and the aperture for the moon phases at 12. Luminous white "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 2120, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 41 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating freesprung flat balance-spring, hand-engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.