Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 157

Audemars Piguet, Genève "Quantième Perpetuel Automatique No. 2051", movement No. 274296, Ref. C 15845. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and a 14K yellow gold buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, curved triangular lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2120/2, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.