Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 450

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE ?VOLCANO? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Volcano?, No. 1025, movement No. 683679, case No. G01808, Ref. 26170ST. Made in 2008. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, self winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original certificate and instruction booklet and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

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, screweddown winding crown, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Bi-color, black and orange, ?Grande Tapisserie? decoration, with orange Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer tachometer graduation on an orange reserve, aperture for the date. Luminous orange steel baton hands. M. Cal. 3126/ 3840, 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 fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 45 x 54 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.