Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 448

AUDEMARS PIGUET WHITE GOLD ROYAL OAK SPECIAL EDITION FOR NIGERIA WITH SKELETONIZED DIAMOND & EMERALD DIAL Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak Nigeria?, Automatic, movement No. 399612, case No. E9904, Ref. 14811BC. Made in 30 examples in 1998 and sold to Audemars Piguet?s Nigerian agent Danatec. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, octagonal bezel, self-winding, water-resistant, skeletonized 18K white gold wristwatch with an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet with white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel set with 8 hexagonal pink gold nuts embanked in 8 screws on the case back, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized with diamond dot hour indexes, the center with a white gold model of the African continent, the country of Nigeria set with a shaped emerald. White gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 2120SQ, skeletonised, rhodium-plated, hand-engraved, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax type balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hand engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Crystal, case and movement signed. DIAM. 39 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. Approx overall length 185 mm.