Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 265

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK JUMBO "B SERIES" Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Jumbo, Automatic?, No. B 1303. Made in the 1970s. Very fine and rare, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 screws on the case back, angled lugs with 4 screws to fi x the bracelet, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite, ?tapisserie? decoration, applied luminous steel baton indexes, applied Audemars Piguet logo at 6, outer white minute divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2121, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 39 x 48 mm. Thickness 7 mm. Approx. overall length 160 mm.