Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 404

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK CHRONOGRAPH WHITE GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic," No. 1494, case No. H 55691. Made circa 2008. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an Audemars Piguet 18K white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, warranty and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 pink gold hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. Blue with checkerboard pattern decoration and luminous triangular and baton white gold indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor segment.