Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 52

AUDEMARS PIGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel Automatique," No. 4117, case No. D 7679. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, correctors in the band, sapphire crystal. Gold guilloche sunray with painted Arabic numerals on a silver chapter ring, four small guilloche silver dials, for the date, days of the week, months, moon phase aperture, lunar age sector, outer minute divisions. Gold baton hands. Cal. 2120/2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold-edged rotor.