Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 440

AUDEMARS PIGUET, REF. D91844, WHITE GOLD MILLENARY QUANTIEME PERPETUEL Audemars Piguet, ?Millenary Quantième Perpetuel, Automatique?, No. 046, Ref. D91844. Made circa 2000. Very fine, horizontal oval, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indicator, 52 week indicator, moon phases and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, straight curved lugs, crown set with cabochon sapphire, case back with 6 screws. D. Satine silver with applied white gold baton and dot indexes, outer minute track, outermost 52 week indication, subsidiary dials for the months, leap year, day and date, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel cathedral hands, yellow gold hand with an arrow for the weeks indication. M. Cal. 2120/4, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax type balance, adjusted to heat, cold and isochronism and fi ve positions, self-compensating free-sprung fl at balance spring, shock absorber, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 39 x 35 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.