Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 46

Steel Royal Oak Offshore Triple Date Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore - Automatic, No. 646, case No. E 5579. Made circa 2000. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with triple date and an integrated, brushed stainless steel link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws and 8 white gold screws on the case back, screwed-down winding crown with rubber cap protected by the crown guard, sapphire crystal. D. Black with "clous-de-Paris" decoration, luminous steel indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, outer graduation for the date, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2127/2827, rhodium- plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.