Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 413

AUDEMARS PIGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR NO. 1, PLATINUM Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel Automatique?, No. 01, case No. C 65044. Made in 1989 for Asprey in a limited edition. Very fine and rare, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, and a 18K white gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, shaped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Four small silvered dials, for the date, days of the week, months, moon phase aperture, aperture for the moon phases. White gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2120/2, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and fi ve positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balancespring, 21K gold-edged rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.