Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 587

Elliptical Audemars Piguet,Geneve,movement No. 77318, case No. 21238. Made in the late 1960s. Fine and unusual, thin, elliptical shaped, 18K white gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, flat bezel, straight lugs, snap-on case back. D. Silver with applied baton indexes, subsidiary dial for the seconds. Gold baton hands. M. Cal 2001A, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, monometallic balance adjusted to four positions and to temperatures, self-compensating blued Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 31 x 37 mm. Thickness 6 mm.