Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 26, 2012

LOT 383

AUDEMARS PIGUET QUANTIEME PERPETUEL Audemars Piguet, ?Quantieme Perpétuel?, No. 70, movement No. 363657, case No. B 72988. Made in the 1980s. Very fine and rare, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar.

C. Three-body, ?variée?, polished and brushed, stepped curved bezel, brushed band, hinged bow, cabochon sapphire set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and 4-year cycle, days of the week and date, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar. Blued steel pierced lozenge hands. M. Cal. 5020, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 20 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating fl at balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 8 mm.