Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 432

Titanium Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic, No. 314, case No. E 15827. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, large, octagonal, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with rubber tops round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an integral brushed stainless steel bracelet with double deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold nuts embanked in 8 white gold screws on the case back, screw-down hexagonal black rubber winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Textured anthracite with luminous steel indexes, subsidiary blue ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds and tachometer graduation. cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodiuplated, fausses côtes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for 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.