Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 206

AUDEMARS PIGUET FOR ASPREY, YELLOW GOLD ROYAL OAK QUARTZ ? PORTRAIT OF THE SULTAN OF OMAN SPECIAL EDITION & MATCHING RING Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak ? Sultan of Oman?, No. 2456, case No. D18440. Made for Asprey (London) in the 1980s. Fine and elegant, octagonal, 18K yellow gold quartz wristwatch with mother of pearl dial with portrait of the Sultan of Oman and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by an 18K yellow gold matching Audemars Piguet for Asprey ?Royal Oak? ring.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal nuts secured by 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. The ring: brushed octagonal bezel with glazed printed portrait of the Sultan of Oman, polished lapidated shank. D. Mother of pearl with the polychrome printed portrait of the Sultan of Oman between 2 and 7, radial Roman numerals. Yellow gold and black baton hands. M. With quartz standardization. Dial, case and movement signed. Case and ring signed Asprey. Ring weight 26grams. DIM. 33 x 42 mm. THICKNESS 6 mm. Approx. overall length 165 mm.