Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2014
AUDEMARS PIGUET, ROYAL OAK CHRONOGRAPH - WHITE GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Chronograph, Automatic," No. 0885, case No. F 71475. Made circa 2008. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold buckle.
Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 pink gold hexagonal screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and push-buttons, sapphire crystal. Silver with checkerboard pattern decoration and luminous square white gold indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor segment.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |