Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 624

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 14840 ROYAL OAK YELLOW GOLD RUBY & DIAMOND Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak," No. 090, No. 478125, case No. D 72197, Ref. 14840 OR. Made in the late 1990s, sold January 25th, 2000. Fine, self-winding, octagonal, 18K yellow gold, baguette ruby and diamond-set wristwatch with date and an 18k yellow gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Audemars Piguet fitted box, a pouch and Certificate of Origin.

Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal gold bezel set with 28 calibrated baguette-cut rubies and 8 white gold hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 yellow gold screws on the case back, screw-down cabochon sapphire-set winding-crown, sapphire crystal. Yellow gold pave-set with round diamonds and 10 round ruby-set indexes, aperture for the date. Yellow gold and black baton hands. Cal. 2225, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor.