Important Limited Edition & Modern Co...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 25, 2002

LOT 141

Timekeeper with 10 Complications. Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus, "Jules Au-demars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 505842, case No. E 50882, Ref. 25934BC. Produced in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset, set for the city of Geneva, equation of time, 40 hours autonomy and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with screws, engraved bezel with graduation for equation of time and Geneva's latitude of 12 h 36', straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. "guilloché" anthracite with applied luminous markers and white gold triangular indexes, auxiliary dials for the days of the month, of the week on the 6, 12-hour sunrise dial on the 9 and 24-hour sunset dial on the 3, aperture for the leap year on the 1, the months and the aperture for the moon phases on the 12. "Alpha" tritium-coated gold hands. M. Cal. 2120/ 2808, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 41 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance ad-justed for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compen-sating free-sprung flat balance spring, hand en-graved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm.