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Lot 136 AUDEMARS PIGUET STAR WHEEL
THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
AUDEMARS PIGUET. AN ATTRACTIVE AND UNUSUAL 18K GOLD AUTOMATIC WANDERING HOUR WRISTWATCH
SIGNED AUDEMARS PIGUET, STAR WHEEL MODEL, CASE NO. D8170, CIRCA 1992
Closed9 May 2022
Price Realised
CHF 35,280
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Specialist note
According to the Archives of Audemars Piguet, the present watch was sold in 1992 in Italy.
The “Star Wheel” system was invented by the firm in the early 1990s, including different variations of “wandering hour” wristwatches. Three transparent sapphire disks, or star wheels, each inscribed with four hour indicators are attached to a rotating centre wheel. As the assembly turns, the indicator for the actual hour is rotated into view and then passed across a 120-degree minutes sector. The time is read by noting the visible hour pointing to the current minute. Each disk is obscured until it rises into the arc where the background contrasts the digits into legibility.
The “Star Wheel” system was invented by the firm in the early 1990s, including different variations of “wandering hour” wristwatches. Three transparent sapphire disks, or star wheels, each inscribed with four hour indicators are attached to a rotating centre wheel. As the assembly turns, the indicator for the actual hour is rotated into view and then passed across a 120-degree minutes sector. The time is read by noting the visible hour pointing to the current minute. Each disk is obscured until it rises into the arc where the background contrasts the digits into legibility.