Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 22, 2014

LOT 195

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE STEEL Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Offshore", movement No. 579100, case No. E94615-2296, Ref. 25770ST. Sold on September 19th, 2004. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, self winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, instruction booklet, service papers, additional nylon strap and guarantee.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, crown and buttons with rubber cap protected by the crown guard, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Navy blue, "Tapisserie", decoration, with applied luminous steel baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer tachometer scale, aperture for the date. Luminous steel 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, hack mechanism.