17,500 CHF
AUDEMARS PIGUET, ROYAL OAK, SPECIAL EDITION LA BOUTIQUE NEW YORK Audemars Piguet, Genève, "La Boutique New York- Royal Oak”, Automatic, No. 529399, case No. F 02766, Ref. 26014SN. Made in a special edition of 150 examples for the opening of the New York boutique in 2003. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant PVD-coated wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin. Three-body, PVD-coated, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal gold screws and nuts, case back with logo of the Audemars Piguet boutique in New York, screweddown hexagonal buttons and crown, sapphire crystal. Black "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous arabic numerals, outer minute divisions on a black chapter, subsidiary guilloché black dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. White luminous "baton" hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-05-13
