Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 139

AUDEMARS PIGUET STAR WHEEL YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, "Star Wheel Automatic", movement No. 375776, case No. D 11366, Ref. 25720. Made in the 1990?s. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, epicycloidal, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved lugs, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color matte silver and engraved yellow gold, the hour graduation on three rotating translucent sapphire discs, each with four painted black stylized hour indicators, on top, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, at the center, a rhodium-plated wheel with three arms, carrying the spring-loaded rotating star wheel sapphire discs. M. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.