Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 32

AUDEMARS PIGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, "Perpetual Calendar Chronograph," No. 348461, case No. C 98006. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a solar winding box and certificate.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped rounded bezel, snap-on case back, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied pink gold indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, tachometer graduated to 500 UPH. Subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers in red, the days of the week, of the month, the months, the leap year in black, the moon phases in gold and blue. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 51 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.