Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 251

Audemars Piguet & Cie, Brassus, Swiss, ?Quantième Perpétuel? No. 84. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, slim, keyless, astronomical, 18K yellow gold dress watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases.

C. Three-body, brushed and polished, rounded band, steppedbezel, sapphire-set winding-crown. D. White with painted radialRoman numerals, sunk subsidiary dials for days of the week,months of the leap-yearcycle, dates and seconds with innermoon phase aperture. Blued steel ?cathédrale? hands. M. 16???,rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration. 20 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance with shockabsorbersuspension, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and fivepositions, self compensating Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 50 mm.