Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 282

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK CHRONOGRAPH QUANTIEME PERPETUEL TITANIUM Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Off Shore- Chronograph - Quantième Perpétuel Automatique", case No. F 02961, Ref. 25854 TI. Made circa 2005. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with perpetual calendar, round button chronograph, register, moon phases, tachometer and a titanium Royal Oak bracelet with stainless steel double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original hang-tag.

Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed white gold nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, hexagonal screwed-down winding crown, crown and buttons with rubber cap, angled lugs with 4 screws to fix the strap, sapphire crystal. Silver, "Tapisserie" decoration, applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute, 12 hour register, the days of the month, of the week, the months with leap-year cycle and the age of the moon, outer minute/seconds track , outermost tachometer scale. Luminous baton hands. Cal. 2226/2839, rhodium-plated, 54 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, engraved 18K yellow gold rotor segment.