Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 444

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE CHRONOGRAPH Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 2945, case No. E75912. Made in the early 2000?s. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with rubberized chronograph buttons, registers, tachometer and date, on polished and brushed stainless steel integrated bracelet. Accompanied by an undated certificate.

C. Three body, polished and brushed, back secured by 8 screws, bezel secured by 8 bolts, screwed rubber-coated winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Slate blue, central clous de Paris decoration with luminous Arabic numerals, silvered subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 171 mm. From The Arman Collection