Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 289

Audemars Piguet, Genève,"Jules Audemars", Automatic, case No. E 23222, Ref. 25859B@C. Produced circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 5 screws, rounded bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Navy blue with applied white gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register guilloché dials, outer ring for the 1/5th seconds graduation. White gold "bâton" hands.M. Cal. 2226/2841, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm.