Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 581

Audemars Piguet Ref. 25979ST City of Sails Limited Edition Steel Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak City of Sails?, Automatic Chronograph, Ref. 25979ST. Made in a limited edition of 1250 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, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a rubber strap. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and instruction 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 engraved with 2 racing boats, sapphire crystal. D. Gray and black, Clous-de-Paris 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. Luminous 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. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector