Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 253

Audemars Piguet - Platinum - Perpetual Calendar - Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chrono Quantième Automatic," No. 375473, case No. D 25673. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar and moon phases, 45-hour autonomy and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel with signature, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes, 4 subsidiary sunk dials for the seconds and days of the month, the 30-minute register, leap year and months, the 12-hour register and days of the week, the gold and blue moon phases, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation to 500 UPH. White gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.