Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 266

AUDEMARS REF. 26003 JULES AUDEMARS EQUATION OF TIME NEW YORK WHITE GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Sunrise - Sunset - Automatic," movement No. 548560, case No. F 34726, Ref. 26003 BC. Made circa 2008. Very fine and important, self-winding, water-resistant, astronomic, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the city of New York, equation of time and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original Audemars Piguet wooden winding box, setting pin, certificate of origin, guarantee, spare white gold minute and hour feuille hands and service papers dated 8/22/2012.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. Guilloche two-tone silver with applied radial white gold Roman numerals on a plain reserve, outer graduation for equation of time and New York latitude of 11 h 55' subsidiary dials for the days of the month, days of the week at 6, 12-hour sunrise dial at 9 and 12-hour sunset dial at 3, the months at 12, leap year at 1, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous black alpha hands. Cal. 2120/2808, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 41 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free- sprung flat balance spring, hand-engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment.