Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 88

Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic", "End of Days", No. 362, case No. D 91749. Produced in a limited edition of 500 examples in the late 1990's.Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel with black PVD coating gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a Kevlar strap.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, screwed rubber top winding-crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with painted luminous Arabic numerals, auxiliary satiné black dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer tachometer graduation. "Cyclops" aperture for the date. "Bâton" luminous yellow hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" dcoration, 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.