Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 314

Titanium Offshore Perpetual Calendar Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Quantieme Perpetuel Automatic", No. 0119, movement No. 561090, case No. F02978. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with rubber-top round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and a brushed titanium Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden carrousel winding box, certificate of origin and instruction booklet.

C. Three body, polished and brushed, back and bezel with 8 white gold screws, screw-down rubber winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver ?clous de Paris? decoration with applied luminous titanium baton indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and date, the 12-hour register and days of the week, the 30-minute register with months and leap-year indication, moon phase indication at 3, outer tachometer graduation on an inclined scale. Luminous polished gray baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2839, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes 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 16 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm.