21,850 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel Carré", No. 4, No. 390814, case No. D 51111. Manufactured in the 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, astronomic, square, platinum gentleman’s wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, and a platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, teardrop lugs. white with applied white gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week and the months, sector graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel "Feuille" hands. Cal. 2003/2, rhodium-plated, "fausses-cotes" decoration and engraved, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Signed on the dial and the movement, numbered on the case. Dim. 28 x 37 mm. Notes This watch is the replica of a model created in 1944. Since 1920, Audemars Piguet have specialized in wristwatches with calendar showing the triple date and the moon phases. In 1978, they created an extra-flat self-winding movement and equipped it with a perpetual calendar system. The flattest movement in the world was made by Audemars Piguet in 1946 and still appears in some of the classics of the House.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
