Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 343

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26022 ROYAL OAK PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Royal Oak Automatic, No. 1097, No. 572856, case No. F 71632, Ref. 260220R. Made in 2006, sold June 2nd, 2007. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Origin, instruction booklet, hang tag, spare strap and a jeweler?s box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws, case back with 8 screws, screw-down hexagonal winding-crown and nuts for the chronograph buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Silver, clous-de-Paris decoration with applied luminous square pink gold indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous pink gold 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 flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 41 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.