Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 98

AUDEMARS PIGUET, REF. 25979. ROYAL OAK CITY OF SAILS, PLATINUM, LIMITED EDTION Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak City of Sails, 30th Anniversary," Automatic Chronograph, case No. E 89603, Ref. 25979. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples for the 30th Anniversary of the Royal Oak in 2003 and dedicated to the "Alinghi" team, winner of the America's Cup, 2003. Very fine and rare, large, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a rubber strap. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box, certificate, booklet and the Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 8 screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal gold screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and buttons, case back embossed with 2 racing sail boats, sapphire crystal. Anthracite with checkerboard decoration, luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour (with red Alinghi logo) and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4&5. Luminous white baton hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment.