Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 391

AUDEMARS PIGUET, REF. 25721BA. ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE CHRONOGRAPH Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore", No. 092, case No. E7925, Ref. 25721BA. Made circa 2003. Very fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an Audemars Piguet 18K yellow gold bracelet and double deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down windingcrown, sapphire crystal. D. Navy Blue with textured pattern, applied luminous indexes, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, 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 fl at balance-spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm.