Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 149

Millenary Chronograph Audemars Piguet, ?Millenary Automatic?, case No. E1406. Made in the 2000's. Fine and unusual, large, water-resistant, self-winding, horizontal oval, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Audemars Piguet box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, back with 6 screws, straight curved lugs, winding crown set with a cabochon sapphire, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Two-tone silver, with painted radial Roman numerals, inner minute track, outer tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Black alpha hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 37 x 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.