Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 75

AUDEMARS PIGUET CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC, STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Automatic, No. 275182, case No. C58796. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, curved stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver dial with applied steel square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.