Important Watches, Collector's Wristw...

The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Jun 06, 2004

LOT 229

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Chronograph Automatic", case No. D 71968. Manufactured in the 1990s. Fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold, sapphire and diamond gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel set with 48 square-cut sapphires, concave lugs set with diamonds, sapphire crystal with "cyclops" lens. D. pavé-set with diamonds and sapphire dot markers, subsidiary blue mother-of-pearl seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, aperture for the date, outer tachometer graduation. Black "Baton" hands.M. Cal. 2126 , rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 41 mm.