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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Feb 20, 2005

LOT 55

Audemars Piguet & Cie, Brassus, Swiss, ?Quantième Perpétuel? No. 34. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, keyless, astronomical, 18K yellow gold dress watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, brushed and polished, rounded band, stepped bezel, sapphire-set winding-crown.D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary dials for days of the week, months of the leap-yearcycle, dates and seconds with inner moon phase aperture. Blued steel ?cathédrale? hands. M. 16???, rhodiumplated, ?fausses côtes? decoration. 20 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance with shockabsorber suspension, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, self compensating Breguet balancespring.Dials, case and movements signed.Diam. 50 mm.