Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 126

Audemars Piguet White Gold and Diamond Royal Oak Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Automatic", movement No. 658830, case No. G47440, Ref. 26068BC.ZZ.D002CR.01, No. 0108. Made in 2008. Extremely fine and very rare, heavy, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, diamond-set, 18K white gold wristwatch with chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet fitted box and a 2 year guarantee.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, the lugs, band and shoulders set with 388 round diamonds, case back and diamond-set bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws and 40 round diamonds, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and pushbuttons, sapphire crystal. D. Pavé diamond-set with sapphire indexes, outer seconds divisions on a matte silver scale, mother of pearl subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. White gold skeleton baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 11 mm.