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Audemars Piguet Cobra - 18K White Gold

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A timeless classic from Audemars Piguet’s golden era, this vintage Mini Cobra is everything collectors love about the brand’s 1980s design language—elegant, bold, and masterfully crafted.

This particular example features a factory silver dial set with diamond hour markers and diamond-set hands, offering a subtle sparkle that contrasts beautifully against the clean silver dial. It’s all housed in solid 18k white gold, with a beautifully integrated bracelet showcasing alternating polished and hand-engraved links. The result is a rich, textured pattern that catches the light in all the right ways while maintaining the understated sophistication AP is known for.

The Mini Cobra has become one of the most sought-after designs in Audemars Piguet’s vintage lineup—and for good reason. It perfectly embodies the maison’s ability to blend jewelry-level finishing with true horological quality, creating watches that wear like art on the wrist.

This is a quintessential AP design from the 80s with all the right traits—factory diamonds, a clean dial, flawless bracelet design, and timeless proportions. Whether you're a collector or simply someone who appreciates vintage luxury done right, this piece represents the best of vintage AP in every way.

Bracelet extension or cutting is available by request!

Reference number- NA

Crystal- Sapphire

Movement- Manual Wind

Year- D Serial 1980s

Dial color- Silver Diamond Dial

Case material- 18K White Gold

Bracelet styles- Integrated 18K White Gold Fits a 6.75 Inch Wrist

Case size- 27mm

Bezel type- 18K White Gold

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History

The Cobra is one of the most sinuous and distinctive watches in the Audemars Piguet dress catalog — a bracelet watch whose integrated 18-karat gold links undulate in a pattern that evokes, and earns, the name. Produced primarily in the late 1970s through the 1990s, the Cobra houses ultrathin manual-wind movements in cases ranging from 26mm to 35mm.

These are watches that rewarded you for being close to them: the bracelet articulation, the surface contrasts between polished and brushed gold, and the dial finishing are all things a photograph undersells. Reference 5403 in yellow gold and 4239BA with pave diamond dials represent the range from elegant everyday wear to full haute joaillerie. The Cobra is AP at its most purely luxurious — no sport pretense, no complications for their own sake.