Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 8

"Royal Oak Offshore" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore?, Automatic, No. 440, case No. D 46202. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an integrated stainless steel bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal gold screws and nuts, screwed-down rubber clad winding-crown and chronograph pushers, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, "cyclops" aperture for the date. Luminous steel "baton" 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, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 14 mm.