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Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 540

Quantième Perpetuel Automatique Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpetuel Automatic", No. 3985, case No. C 97649. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, curved lugs, sapphire crystal, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. D. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases, outer minute division. M. Cal. 2120/2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 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. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.