Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 50

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 14800 ROYAL OAK YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Automatic," No. 318, No. 393196, case No. D 27929, Ref. 14800. Made circa 1994. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, octagonal, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and a 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and Certificate of Origin.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 white gold hexagonal nuts secured by 8 white gold screws on the case back, concave lugs with 4 screws to fix the strap, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown, sapphire crystal. Off-white, "Clous-de-Paris" decorated, with luminous applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2125, rhodium-plated, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.