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New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 183

Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Automatic?, No. 6915, case No. F-57850, Ref. 259400K. Made circa 2005. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with black rubber bezel, round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a rubber strap with stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver, "clous de Paris" decoration with black-edged luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale on an inclined reserve, aperture for the date, sapphire crystal. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2326/2840, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.