Audemars Piguet Huitieme Chronograph 18K Yellow Gold

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This is an 18k yellow gold Audemars Piguet Huitieme Chronograph 25644.002. It has an alligator leather strap with an 18k yellow gold tang buckle, and a scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It includes a fluted pull out winding crown, round chronograph push buttons, and there is a solid snap down case back with hallmarks. The 40mm diameter solid three-body case, curved lugs, and concave signed bezel engraved with "AUDEMARS PIGUET," are polished/brushed. The dial is ivory with applied polished yellow gold rectangular hour markers surrounded by a black minute/chronograph fraction of a second scale, and there is a perimeter black tachymeter scale to 500 UPH around the perimeter. It has pointed thin gold baton hands, a gold center-sweep chronograph seconds hand with a wedge-shaped counterbalance, and there is a magnified square date aperture window at the 3 o'clock position. It includes three gold-ringed recessed ivory subsidiary dials with black Arabic numerals, markers, and blued indicator hands, including a running small constant seconds register at 12 o'clock, a 30-minute chronograph totalizer at 9 o'clock, and there is a 12-hour chronograph counter at 6 o'clock. It's water resistant to 20 meters/70 feet, it has a 45-hour power reserve at full winding, and the 11mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Audemars Piguet Huitieme Chronograph 25644.002 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Audemars Piquet caliber 2126 (based on the Jaeger-LeCoultre caliber 889) with a Dubois-Depraz module column wheel chronograph movement. It's rhodium-plated with fausses cotes embellishment, and it's constructed with 51 jewels, an anti-shock system, and a straight-line lever escapement. It includes a monometallic balance that's adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, a self-compensating flat balance spring, a 21k gold rotor segment, and a hacking seconds mechanism for precision time setting. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz). The Audemars Piguet Huitieme Chronograph 25644.002 was introduced in the 1980's.

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