Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 467

Audemars Piguet Yellow Gold Jules Audemars Chronograph Audemars Piguet, "Automatic", case No. E16426, Ref. 25859. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inverted bezel, curved straight lugs, case back with 5 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Twotone black with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and triangular indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds/ minute track. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2226, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.