Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 250

Audemars Piguet Limited Edition Worth Avenue Royal Oak Offshore No.27/100 Audemars Piguet, No. 027/100, case No. F 69581. Made in a limited series of 100 pieces in 2006 in honor of the East Coast Jewelry boutique on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, booklets, tags and an additional Audemars Piguet stainless-steel link bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding crown, case back engraved ?Worth Avenue,? sapphire crystal. D. Black, clous de Paris decoration, steel-rimmed green luminescent 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, sapphire crystal. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 3126/3840, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 59 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 54 mm. Thickness 14 mm.