Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 138

AUDEMARS PIGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR, AUTOMATIC, YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantieme Perpetuel Automatique," No. 2260, movement No. 274523, Ref. C 27859. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integral 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet double deployant clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished, snap-on case back, sapphire crystal. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the date, the weekdays, the months, graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 36 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.