$4,560
Audemars Piguet, Genève, Automatic, movement No. 348453, case No. D 1824. Made in the 1980's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, stepped bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Blued steel baton hands. Cal. 2126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-09-17
