Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 45

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. B 89956 PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW AND WHITE GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Perpetual Calendar Automatic," No. 1061, Ref. No. B 89956. Made in the late 1980s. Very fine, octagonal, self-winding, 18K yellow and white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integrated, 18K yellow and white gold woven Audemars Piguet link bracelet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, snap-on case back, sapphire crystal. Bicolor silver and champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 2120/1, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 38 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.