Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 298

White Gold Millenary Pianoforte Audemars Piguet, Genève, Limited Edition "Millenary Pianoforte," Automatic, No. 716545, case No. G 20899, Ref. 15325BC. Made in 2007, sold June 18th, 2008. Very fine and unusual, horizontal oval, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with date and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original wooden piano-shaped box, certificate and instruction manual. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Mother-of-pearl, Eccentric hour dial, bicolor black and gray, with stylized applied white gold Roman and painted white radial Arabic numerals, aperture for the date. Black oxidized gold lozenge hands. M. Cal. 3120, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, embossed 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 45 mm. Thickness 9 mm.