10,625 CHF
Audemars Piguet, Star Wheel Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Automatic", No. 355931, case No. D 7981, Ref. 25720. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, epicycloidal, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet fitted box and booklet. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. Bi-color matte silver and engraved yellow gold, the hour graduation on three rotating translucent sapphire discs, each with four painted black stylized hour indicators, on top, white sector indicating the 60 minutes in painted Arabic numerals and indexes, at the center, a rhodium-plated wheel with three arms, carrying the spring-loaded rotating star wheel sapphire discs. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27