Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 106

AUDEMARS PIGUET ? ROYAL OAK ? PLATINUM CITY OF SAILS - LIMITED EDTION OF 50 Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak City of Sails," Automatic Chronograph, case No. E 86178, Ref. 25979. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples for the 30th Anniversary of the Royal Oak in 2003 and dedicated to the "Alinghi" team, winner of the America?s Cup, 2003. Very fine and rare, large, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a rubber strap. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet box, certificate and booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with screws, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal gold screws, screweddown hexagonal winding-crown and buttons, case back embossed with 2 racing boats, sapphire crystal. D. Silver, checkerboard decoration with luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour (with red Alinghi logo) and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4&5. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.