Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 445

AUDEMARS PIGUET PLATINUM STAR WHEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. D 11696, movement No. 387676. Ref. 25720PT. Made circa 1995. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with digital display, with a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color white and blued steel with foliate decoration, 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. From The Arman Collection