Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 161

?Limited Edition? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic", No. 035, case No. D 67856. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with rubber-topped round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp on a blue strap. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet certificate.

C. Three body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel with screws, screwed-down octagonal rubber-topped windingcrown, sapphire crystal. D. Navy blue "clous de Paris" decoration with tritium-coated steel indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation. "Cyclops" aperture for the date. Tritium-coated steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal.2226, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 51 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat,cold, isocronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48 mm. Thickness 14 mm.