Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 59

Perpetual Calendar, Automatic, Skeletonized, Audemars Piguet Genève, "Perpetual Calendar, Automatic, Skeletonized," No. 236, movement No. 324328, case No. C 97815. Made in the 1980s. 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. Serviced by Audemars Piguet in September 2008.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals, correctors on the band to adjust 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.