Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 173

Audemars Piguet Steel & Gold Royal Oak Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak - Day and Date,? Automatic, No. 1784. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, astronomic, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with day and date, moon phases and an integrated, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet with deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 hexagonal white gold nuts for the 8 screws of the case back, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite clous-de-Paris decorated with applied luminous yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary yellow gold ring dials for the date and days of the week, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2825, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.