Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 81

?Los Angeles? Audemars Piguet, Geneve, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 488774, case No. E43587, Ref. 25934BC. Produced in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the city of Los Angeles, equation of time, 40 hours autonomy and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with five screws, engraved bezel with graduation for the equation of time and Los Angeles? latitude of 11h 53?, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. "Guilloché" anthracite with applied luminous markers and white gold triangular indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week at 6, 12-hour sunrise dial at 9 and 24-hour sunset dial at 3, aperture for the leap year at 1, the months and the aperture for the moon phases at 12. Luminous white "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 2120, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 41 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance-spring, hand-engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm.