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New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 96

Chronographe Quantième Automatique Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chronographe Quantième Automatique", case No. D 25675. Made in the 1990?s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel with signature, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and days of the month, the 30-minute register, leap year and months, the 12-hour register and days of the week, the moon phases, (registers and seconds in blue Arabic numerals), outer ring for the tachometer graduation to 500 units/ hour. White gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 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. Thickness 13 mm.