Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 229

Audemars Piguet Yellow Gold Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, Automatic, case No. C 38309. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Yellow 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 11 mm. Approx. overall length 170 mm.