Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 446

AUDEMARS PIGUET, ROYAL OAK "MILITARY" Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak, Automatic?, movement No. 508496, case No. E51492, Ref. 14790 ST. Sold circa 2002. Fine, self-winding, center seconds, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date and a stainless steel Royal Oak bracelet with a concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original certificate, instruction booklet and fitted box, and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 screws on the case back, angled lugs with 4 screws to fi x the strap, screwed down crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black, luminous applied radial Arabic numerals and dots, outer minute track, aperture for the date. Luminous lozenge hands. M. Cal. 2225, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance-spring, 21K engraved gold rotor, hack mechanism Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 36 x 45 mm. Thickness 8 mm. Approx overall length 170 mm.