Important Limited Edition & Modern Co...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 25, 2002

LOT 52

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Tourbil-lon Automatique", No. 21. Launched in 1986, sold on November 14, 1986. Fine and interesting, thin, self-winding, rectan-gular "galbé", 18K yellow gold gentleman's wrist-watch with one minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 11,000 - 13,000

Sold: USD 19,550

C. two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, teardrop and hooded lugs, back winder. D. yellow gold with embossed sun ray design, dot indexes for the hours, apertures for the visible tourbillon regulator on the 11, and the 6, for the oscillating weight of the automatic winding with the initials AP. "Feuille" burnished steel hands. M. Cal. 11''' engraved, 32 jewels, one minute tourbillon regulator with titanium cage, lateral lever escape-ment, monometallic balance, self-com-pensating flat balance-spring. Dial and movement signed. Case num-bered. Dim. 29 x 36 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 1 - 01

Notes

This wristwatch is not only the first model of self-winding wristwatches made with a tourbillon mo-vement, but it is also the world's flattest and smallest. The movement is only 4.8 mm thick, and Audemars Piguet therefore used the back of the case as the back plate. For the first time in the history of horology, it was possible to realize a tourbillon cage in titanium, a very light and resistant metal.