Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 300

Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak City of Sails", Automatic Chronograph, Ref. 25979. Produced in a limited edition of 200 examples for the 30th Anniversary of the Royal Oak in 2003 and dedicated to the "Alinghi" team, winner of the America?s Cup 2003. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a rubber strap. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal gold screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding-crown and buttons, case back engraved with 2 racing boats, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor silver and gray, Clous-de-Paris decoration with luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour (with red Alinghi logo) and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated,oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Property of Various Owners