Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 286

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK PERPETUAL CALENDAR PLATINUM PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak - Quantième Perpétuel Automatique" No. 008, case No. D 44065. Very fine and rare, octagonal, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum and 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and a platinum and 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet winding box.

CHF 37,000 - 58,000

HKD 285,000 - 460,000 / USD 40,000 - 60,000

Sold: CHF 46,250

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal platinum bezel set with 8 hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 screws on the transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Salmon pink, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases at 6. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. 2120, gilt brass, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 38 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.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 39 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm. Not to be confused with the stainless steel and yellow gold version, this is the very rare platinum and pink gold perpetual calendar Royal Oak. It is the first time this particular model has appeared at Antiquorum (in the non-skeletonized version)