Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 176

Audemars Piguet Pink Go ld & Diamonds Star Wheel Automatic Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Automatic," No. 391773, case No. D 35707, Ref. 25720. Made circa 2001. Very fine, rare and unusual, self-winding, 18K pink gold and diamond-set wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, bezel set with 54 round white diamonds, 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, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.