Christie's Geneva · 2015
Audemars Piguet — Perpetual Calendar Leap Year
Reference 5516 · 18k Yellow Gold
$545,000
≈ CHF480k · €501k · £431k · HK$4.27M · ¥85,020,000
About this lot
The first perpetual calendar wristwatch to feature a leap year indicator on the dial. Only 12 examples of this reference were made, marking a significant milestone in the history of calendar complications.
Ranks #18 of 63 Audemars Piguet auction lots we track (top 29%) · #254 of 1,119 documented luxury watch sales overall (top 23%) · all Audemars Piguet records →
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