Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 85

Toronto ? Pink Gold Equation of Time Audemars Piguet, Geneve, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 548614, case No. E 69995, Ref. 25934BC. Made in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the city of Toronto, equation of time, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 5 screws, engraved bezel with graduation for the equation of time and Toronto latitude of 12h 18?, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche anthracite with applied luminous markers and pink 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 aperture for the moon phases at 12. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 2120, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 41 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, hand-engraved skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of Various Owners