175,000 HKD
Audemars Piguet Equation of Time Madrid Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars, Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", movement No. 505872, case No. E 50937. Made in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset adjusted for the city of Madrid, equation of time, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted winding box. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 5 screws, engraved bezel with graduation for the equation of time and Madrid latitude of 13 h 55’, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. Two-tone guilloche silver with applied pink gold triangular and baton indexes, outer minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers on a plain reserve, 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 aperture for the moon phases at 12. Black skeletonized alpha hands. Cal. 2120/4, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes 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, handengraved skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Equation of time Indicates
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
