Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 296

Pink Gold Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, retailed by Bulgari, No. 45598. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register and tachometer.

USD 40,000 - 50,000

EUR 28,000 - 35,000

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs. D. Champagne with applied pink gold conical indexes and Arabic half-hour numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel épée hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of Various Owners


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3-7*

Good

Oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-6-7-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

Oxidized

HANDS Original