Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 411

AUDEMARS PIGUET JULES AUDEMARS CHRONOGRAPH, YELLOW GOLD 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. Accompanied by the original warranty.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, case back with 5 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone 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 fi ve positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.