Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 452

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE ?MASATO?- 18K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMONDS ? NO. 02/20 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph, Masato? , No. 02/20, movement No. 687733, case No. G 74012, Ref. 26196BC. Made in a limited series of 20 examples in 2009 to celebrate the Japanese world champion kick boxer, Masato Kobayashi. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water resistant, 18k white gold and diamond wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a 18k white gold and diamond Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, instruction booklet, an extra Audemars Piguet white rubber strap and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, entire case and bezel diamond-set,case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding crown, case back engraved ?Masato? sapphire crystal. D. Red and black, clous de Paris and guilloche decoration with black-edged Arabic numerals, number 3 pave-set with 9 small diamonds, 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 fl at balance spring, 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm