Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 296

AUDEMARS PIGUET PINK GOLD JULES AUDEMARS EQUATION DU TEMPS - ONLY WATCH MONACO PIECE UNIQUE Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Jules Audemars - Sunrise - Sunset - Automatic?, movement No. 550923, case No. G86276, Ref. 26373OR. Made as a unique piece for the Monaco Only Watch Charity Auction in 2009. Very fine and important, unique, self-winding, water-resistant, astronomic, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the Principality of Monaco, equation of time and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Audemars Piguet winding box, Certificate and instruction booklets

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws and engraved ?Piece Unique 2009?, graduated bezel for equation of time and Monaco latitude of 12 h 30?, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche two-tone silver and black with applied radial pink gold Roman numerals on a plain reserve, black subsidiary dials for the days of the month, days of the week at 6, 12-hour sunrise dial at 9 and 12-hour sunset dial at 3, the months at 12, leap year at 1, aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2120/2808, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 41 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, hand-engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.