Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 164

Ap Royal Oak Off shore Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore?, No. 3421, case No. G32894, Ref. 26020ST. Made circa 2000. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, selfwinding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by a box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, crown and buttons with rubber cap protected by the crown guard, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone, white and blue, ?Grande Tapisserie?, decoration, with blued Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2326/ 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 45 x 54 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.