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New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 399

Quantième Perpétuel Automatique Squelette Audemars Piguet Genève, "Perpetual Calendar, Automatic, Skeletonized," No. 236, case No. C 97815. Made in the 1980?s. Very fine, self-winding, astronomic, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and instruction booklet. Recently serviced by Audemars Piguet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals, correctors on the band to change the date. D. Transparent, subsidiary champagne ring dials for the date, the days of the week, the months, in painted Arabic numerals, sector for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal 2120/1, gilt brass, skeletonized and engraved, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K engraved gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.