Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 40

Audemars Piguet, Genève,"Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic", No. 056,case No. D 91749. Produced in the 1990's.Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with rubber tops round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K yellow gold Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down rubber winding-crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed white gold nuts screwed to 8 white gold screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. "anthracite" "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous gold indexes, auxiliary satiné blue dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer tachometer graduation. "Cyclops" aperture for the date. "Bâton" luminous gold hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoraion, 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.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 46 mm.