Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 16, 2014
AUDEMARS PIGUET QUANTIEME PERPETUEL YELLOW GOLD DRESS WATCH Audemars Piguet, "Quantieme Perpétuel", No. 117, movement No. 263830, case No. B 78846. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, elegant and rare, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Accompanied by a blank Certificate of Origin.
Three-body, "variée", polished and brushed, stepped curved bezel, correctors on the brushed band, hinged bow, cabochon sapphire set winding crown, sapphire crystal. White with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and 4-year cycle, days of the week and date, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar. Blued steel pierced cathedrale hands. Cal. 5020, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 20 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 1 |
As new |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |