Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 148

Stainless Steel ?Royal Oak Offshore? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore?, No. 6409, case No. F29160, Ref. 26020 ST. Made circa 2005. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel 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, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, crown and buttons with rubber cap protected by the "crown guard", screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Textured matte silver with 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. 2326/ 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. Dim. 45 x 54 mm. Thickness 14 mm.