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New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 309

Millenary Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Millenary Chronograph Automatic," case No. E 66331, Ref. 25822. Made in the 1990s. Fine and unusual, horizontal oval, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by its original warranty, instruction booklet and fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws, rounded lugs, sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied blue indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Blued steel alpha hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41 x 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm