Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 437

AUDEMARS PIGUET, ROYAL OAK CHRONOGRAPH, GIORGIO ARMANI, NO. 001, WHITE GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic," , No. 001, movement No. 502361, case No. E 44476, Ref. 25960BC. Made in a limited edition of 10 pieces in 2000. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and guarantee and y an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin..

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Silver with checkerboard pattern decoration and luminous square white gold indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 18K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Approx. overall length 185 mm.