Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 10, 2013
LOT 452
AUDEMARS PIGUET "HUITIEME" STEEL Audemars Piguet, "Automatic", movement No. 407800, case No. D 42600. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the Certificate.
CHF 4,500 - 6,500
HKD 37,000 - 54,000 / USD 4,800 - 7,000
Sold: CHF 5,625
Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped bezel, snap on case back, sapphire crystal with Cyclops lens. Bicolor black and white with applied round luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 3, outer minutes/seconds divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and fi ve positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |