$21,600
White Gold Royal Oak Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic," No. 1255, case No. G 11306, Ref. 26022 BC. Made circa 2002. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K white gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate and instruction manual. To be sold without reserve Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. Silver with checkerboard pattern decoration and luminous square white gold markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-09-17
