Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 28

AUDEMARS PIGUET HUITIEME CHRONOGRAPHE Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chronograph Automatic", case No. C 38184. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet bracelet with concealed double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped yellow gold bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2126/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor sector.