Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 371

"Pride of Russia" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak - Offshore Chronograph - Pride of Russia", No. 099/200, case No. F 47994. Made in a limited edition of 200 pieces in 2005. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal screws secured by 8 screws on the case back, specially engraved case back with "Pride of Russia? and a crest, winding crown with rubber cap protected by the "crown guard", sapphire crystal. D. Textured two-tone silver with pink gold Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, Cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 2226 / 2840, 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, rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.