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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 258

Stainless Steel Royal Oak Chrono Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak, Automatic?, movement No. 568649, case No. E95151, No. 5977, Ref. 25860ST. Made circa 2000. Very fine, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by certificate of origin, fitted box and booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal white gold screws and nuts, screwed down hexagonal buttons and winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. White, clous de Paris decoration with luminous steel baton and triangular indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5, outer minute division. White luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.