Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 247

Audemars Piguet, Genève,? Automatic?, Movement No. 325714, case No. C60664. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, tantalum and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel and gold Audemars Piguet double deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, curved stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte grey with applied 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.