Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 489

Royal Oak Offshore - Rubens Barrichello Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Rubens Barrichello?, movement No. 633346, case No. F72824, No. 529/1000, Made in a limited edition of 1000 pieces in 2007, sold on September 25th, 2007. Fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and ceramic wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet titanium deployant buckle. Accompanied by its original fitted box, certificate of warranty and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, ultra-resistant anti-shock technical ceramics for the bezel, pushbuttons and crown, side profile of the bezel mimicking the ventilations on a brake disc's edges, screw-down crown inspired by a gear wheel and push buttons inspired by brake cooling ducts, case back with special Rubens Barrichello logo, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous baton indexes, outer fifths of a second divisions, outermost tachometer on a frosted silver reserve, the center pierced with a mega tapisserie racing motif to reveal the movement, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel stylized 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. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 15 mm