Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 434

AUDEMARS PIGUET OFFSHORE PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Quantieme Perpetuel Automatic", No. 015, movement No. 461890, case No. E8093, Ref. 25854ST. Made in 1998. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with rubber-top round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, perpetual calendar, moon phases and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

C. Three body, polished and brushed, octagonal back and bezel with 8 white gold screws, screw-down rubber winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Checkerboard midnight blue with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and date, the 12-hour register and days of the week, the 30-minute register with months and leap year indication, moon phase indication at 3, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation on an inclined ring to 500 UPH. Luminous black baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2839, 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 fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 16 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.