Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 255

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25770 LIMITED EDITION PVD COATED STAINLESS STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic, No. 380 / 500, case No. E 25931. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in 2000 to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of Audemars Piguet. Very fine and rare, large, tonneau shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel PVD-coated wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel PVD-coated Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Origin and instruction booklet.

Three-body, PVD-coated, screw-down steel and rubber winding crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed polished stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. Black with checker board decoration and luminous yellow Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous yellow baton hands. 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 flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor.