Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 334

"Quantième Perpétuel Automatique Squelette" Audemars Piguet Genève, "Quantième Perpétuel Automatique Squelette", No. 108, Ref. C 34730. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, self-winding, astronomic, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals, correctors on the band to change the date. D. Transparent, subsidiary champagne ring dials for the date, the days of the week, the months, in painted Arabic numerals, sector for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold ?bâton? hands. M. Cal 2120/1, gilt brass, skeletonized and engraved, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 21K engraved gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.