Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 377

AUDEMARS PIGUET, "HUITIEME", PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, "Automatic", case No. D 7549. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18k pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18k pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped bezel, snap on case back, sapphire crystal with Cyclops lens. Silver with applied pink gold square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 3, outer minutes/seconds divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and fi ve positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring.