Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 195

Audemars Piguet Pink Gold Star Wheel Automatic Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Automatic," No. 386842, case No. D 20981, Ref. 25720. Made in 2001, sold December 18th, 2002. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color matte silver and engraved pink gold, the hour graduation on three rotating translucent sapphire discs, each with four painted black stylized hour indicators, on top, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, at the center, a rhodium-plated wheel with three arms, carrying the spring-loaded rotating star wheel sapphire discs. M. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm. Property of a Mid-West Collector