120,750 HKD
"Tourbillon Automatique" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Tourbillon Automatique", No. 233. Production of this reference started in 1986. Very fine, thin, self-winding, rectangular "galbé", 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel,teardrop and hooded lugs, back winder, sapphire crystal. Yellow gold with embossed "Sun Ray" pattern, gold dotindexes for the hours, apertures for the visible tourbillon regulatorwith polished steel bridge at 11 and at 6 for the oscillatingweight with the initials "AP". Black oxydized gold "feuille"hands. Notes The present watch features what is considered even today to be the world’s smallest tourbillon cage. It has become a veritable collector’s piece..
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
