Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 134

Audemars Piguet - Pink Gold - Royal Oak - " CIty of sails" Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak City of Sails," Automatic Chronograph, movement No. 530038, case No. E 86049, Ref. 25979. Made in a limited edition of 200 pieces for the 30th anniversary of the Royal Oak in 2003 and dedicated to the "Alinghi" team, winner of the America?s Cup 2003. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a rubber strap. Accompanied by the original fitted box and Certificate of Authentisity.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 8 screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal gold screws, screweddown hexagonal winding-crown and buttons, case back with dedication and embossed with 2 racing boats, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor silver and gray, Clous-de-Paris decoration with luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour (with red Alinghi logo) and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 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 12 mm.