Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 43

Audemars Piguet, Genève,"Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic", No. 694, case No. D 59965. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph fitted with rubber tops, registers, tachometer, date and a polished and brushed, integrated stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet and clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down rubber winding-crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous steel indexes, subsidiary satiné blue dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation."Cyclops" aperture for the date. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straigt 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.