Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 116

AUDEMARS PIGUET QUANTIME PERPETUEL MOTHER OF PEARL DIAL YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, Quantième Perpétuel Automatique, No. 012, case No. C 4322. Made in the late 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integrated 18K yellow gold and mother of pearl Audemars Piguet bracelet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. Mother of pearl with applied yellow gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 38 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment.