Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 408

Royal Oak Offshore Limited Edition ?The National Classic Tour? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph?, No. 15/20, case No. G57355. Made in a limited series of 20 pieces in 2008 for the National Classic Tour Car Rally. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back secured with 8 screws, bezel secured with 8 hexagonal bolts, screwed-down winding crown, case back engraved ?The National Classic Tour?, and numbered, sapphire crystal. D. Midnight blue, clous de Paris decoration, steel rimmed white luminescent Arabic numerals, white subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale on an inclined reserve, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 3126/3840, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 59 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.