Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 92

Royal Oak Offshore, Juan Pablo Montoya Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Juan Pablo Montoya,? No. 337/500, Ref. 26030RO. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in pink gold. Very fine and very rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold and carton fiber wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet 18K pink gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box, Certificate of Origin, warranty and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, ultra-resistant ceramics for the bezel, screwed-down winding crown, case back with special Juan Pablo Montoya logo, sapphire crystals. D. Black, clous de Paris decoration with applied pink gold indexes and luminous inlay, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale on an inclined reserve, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/ 2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Property of an East Coast collector