Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 63

Audemars Piguet - Yellow Gold - Chrono Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Automatic,? movement No. 305035, case No. C 32658. Made in the 1980's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet double deployant clasp.

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