Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 59

AUDEMARS PIGUET, ?20 DOLLAR? COIN WATCH, YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Twenty Dollars 1894, Genève, No. 271083, case No. C 12617. Made circa 1975. Very fine 18K yellow gold wristwatch, set into a U.S. 20 Dollar coin dated 1894.

C. Double case, coin opening with a push-piece concealed in the band, three-body hinged inner case, straight lugs. D. Satine gold with painted baton indexes. Gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2003, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, selfcompensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 4 mm.