$44,840
"Los Angeles - Equation of Time" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Jules Audemars - Sunrise - Sunset - Equation du Temps", No. 548523, case No. E 66104, Ref. 2599 BA. Made in a limited quantity each year since 2000. Very fine and important, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, diamond-set 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year, moon phases, sunrise and sunset set for Los Angeles, equation of time, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, setting pin and certificate. Guilloché mother-of-pearl with applied yellow gold star indexes, each set with a round diamond, subsidiary plain mother-of-pearl 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 the aperture for the moon phases at 12. Black skeletonized "alpha" hands. Cal. 2120, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 41 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, handengraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of a West Coast Collector Notes Equation of Time Equation of time indicates the time difference between the true solar day and the mean solar day (or time told by a clock or watch). It has 2 major
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-06-14
