Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 171

Audemars Piguet Steel Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Chronograph, Automatic,? No. 674168, case No. G 40677, Ref. 25940SK. Made in 2007. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with black rubber bezel, roundbutton chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a rubber strap with stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty and booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding crown, screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver, "clous de Paris" decoration with black-edged luminous radial 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. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2326/2840, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.