Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 409

Royal Oak Offshore ?Safari? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph?, No. F 07832, Case No. 3907. Made circa 2006. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back secured by 8 screws, bezel secured with 8 hexagonal bolts, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. White, clous de Paris decoration with black 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. Steel baton hands with black inner. 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.