Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 268

Audemars Piguet - Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, No. 3314, case No. E 93833. Made in the early 2000s. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel wristwatch with rubberized chronograph buttons, registers, tachometer, date and a polished and brushed stainless steel integrated link bracelet with double deployant clasp.

c. Three body, polished and brushed, back secured by 8 screws, octagonal bezel secured by 8 bolts, protected screwed-down rubber-coated winding crown, sapphire crystal. d. Two-tone white and silver, central clous de Paris decoration with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary silver ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line 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 165 mm.