Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Aug 25, 2012

LOT 94

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK, AUTOMATIC, TANTALUM AND PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak, Automatic, No. 146, Movement No. 330559, case No. D63030, Ref. 1479TR. Circa 1980?s. Fine and rare, automatic, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, tantalum and 18K pink gold mid-size wristwatch with date and a tantalum and 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, bi-color, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws and 8 white gold nuts on the case back, hexagonal winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite with luminous applied pink gold indexes, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous pink gold bâton hands. M. Cal. 2131, 19 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. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm.