Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 116

Audemars Piguet - White Gold - Royal Oa k - Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic," No. 0767, case No. F 58961, Ref. 26022 BC. Made in 2006, sold February 3rd, 2007. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, instruction manual and a spare strap.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Silver with checkerboard pattern decoration and luminous square white gold markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold 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. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm.