Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 77

AUDEMARS PIGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR AUTOMATIC YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantieme Perpetuel Automatique," No. 3078, case No. C 44700. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet fitted leather case.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, correctors on the band, snap-on case back, sapphire crystal. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the date, the weekdays, the months, graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment.