Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 211

AUDEMARS PIGUET, REF. G 24986 ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE WHITE GOLD AND DIAMONDS Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Offshore," case No. 177, Ref. G 24986. Made in circa 2008. Very fine and very rare, heavy, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water- resistant, 18K white gold and diamond-set wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet 18K white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box and guarantee booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, bezel set with 40 round diamonds, case top, sides and lugs pave-set with round diamonds, screw-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Silver, pave-set with round diamonds, applied luminous white gold 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 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.