Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 91

Pink Gold Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Chronograph, Automatic, No. 087, case No. E 81486, Ref. 25940 OK. Made in 2003, sold April 15, 2004. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold and black rubber-coated wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an Audemars Piguet 18K pink gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Origin, guarantee and a spare strap.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal rubbercoated bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws, octagonal case back with 8 hexagonal white gold screws, hexagonal rubber-coated and screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor gray and black with textured clous de Paris pattern, luminous Arabic numerals, black guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 m. Property of an East Coast collector