Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 55

Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Automatic?, movement No. 298113, case No. C30901, Ref. BA25644. Sold on August 6th, 1987. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date. Accompanied by a guarantee and repair invoice dated 2005.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/1/5th seconds, outermost tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straightline 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. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.