Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Mar 18, 2017

LOT 112

AUDEMARS PIGUET STAR WHEEL REF. 25720 YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genve, "Star Wheel Automatic", case No. D 11299, Ref. BA 25720.Very fine and unusual self-winding 18K yellow gold epicycloidal gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box and warranty.

three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. white and guilloché gold, the hour graduation on three translucent sapphire discs, each with four painted black hour indicators, on the top, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, at the center, a rhod um-plated wheel with three arms, each ended by a self-rotating screw, activating the discs registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 2124, rhodiumplated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 33 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor segment.