Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 333

?Star Wheel? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Star Wheel Automatic", No. 376682, case No. D 20961, Ref. 25720. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, epicycloidal, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color matte silver and engraved pink 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. M. Cal. 2124, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" 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 9 mm. To be sold without reserve