Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 468

Platinum Special Edition "La Boutique - Royal Oak" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "La Boutique - Royal Oak?, Automatic, No. 574249 case No. F 21539, Ref. 26035PT. Made in a special edition of 100 examples for the Paris boutique in 2005. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate of exclusivity, guarantee (now void), and booklets.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal gold screws and nuts, case back with logo of the Audemars Piguet boutique in Paris, screwed-down hexagonal buttons and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor silver and black "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous dot indexes on polished reserves, outer minute divisions on a black chapter, subsidiary guilloché black dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Platinum luminous "baton" hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.