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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 289

Stainless Steel "Royal Oak Offshore" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore", No. 398, case No. E62353, Ref. 25940SK. Sold on October 19, 2001. Very fine, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and caoutchouc gentleman's wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, caoutchouc bezel, screweddown winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with textured pattern and luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, outer tachometer graduation, Cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 2226, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Property of a Genevan Collector