Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 178

Chronograph Automatic" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chronograph Automatic", No. C 44560. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, Cyclops aperture for the date. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2126/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor sector. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of Various Owners