Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 431

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK QUANTIÈME PERPÉTUEL AUTOMATIQUE, 120TH ANNIVERSARY Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak - Quantième Perpétuel Automatique", No. 358, movement No. 437961, case No. D68746, Ref. 25810OR. Made & limited edition in 1995. Very fine and rare, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 white gold hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 screws on the case back, correctors on the band, sapphire crystal. D. Salmon with applied pink gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2120/2801, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung fl at balance spring, hand-engraved 21K rotor with the number 120. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 8.2 mm. Approx. overall length 185 mm.