Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 1

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25720 STAR WHEEL PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Star Wheel Automatic, No. 375542, case No. D 20931, Ref. 25720. Made in the 1990?s. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, epicyclical, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved lugs, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color matte silver and engraved pink gold, the hour indicators on three rotating translucent discs, each with four black Arabic numerals, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, centered by a rhodium-plated three-arm wheel carrying the spring-loaded rotating translucent discs. M. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.