$47,200
"New York, A Question of Time" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 548524, case No. E 66105, Ref. 25997 BA. Made in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and diamond gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the city of New York, equation of time, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and a setting pin. Guilloché mother-of-pearl with applied yellow gold star indexes, each set with a round diamond, subsidiary plain mother-of-pearl dials for the days of the month, of the week at 6, 12-hour sunrise dial at 9 and 24-hour sunset dial at 3, aperture for the leap year at 1, the months and the aperture for the moon phases at 12. Black skeletonized "alpha" hands. Cal. 2120, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28
