Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
New York, Sep 30, 2015
AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26401 ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE CHRONOGRAPH PLATINUM Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Offshore, No. 0079, case No. H78083, Ref. 26401 PO. Made in 2012. Sold October 7th, 2013. Very fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum and ceramic wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet platinum buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate of warranty and instruction booklet.
Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back and bezel secured witHEIGHT hexagonal screws, ceramic bezel, protected screw-down crown, sapphire crystals. Bicolor textured black and silver with applied luminous baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous white gold stylized baton hands. Cal. 3126/ 3840, 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.