Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 318

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tour Auto 2007 Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic Tour Auto Lissac 2007", No. 24/50, case No. F99538, Ref. 26136ST. Made in a limited series of 50 examples in 2007 for the Tour Auto Lissac (France). Very fine and rare, octagonal, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. d. Bi-color silver and black, "Tapisserie" decoration, applied luminous steel baton and triangular indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute divisions, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous steel 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.