$28,750
Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 506015, case No. E 50945, Ref. 25934OR. Produced in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for the city of Houston, equation of time, 40 hours autonomy and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate. "Guilloché" anthracite with applied luminous markers and pink gold triangular indexes, subsidiary 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. Luminous pink gold "alpha" hands. Cal. 2120/4, 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.For a note on Audemars Piguet, see lot 333.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-09-22
