Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 205

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK ALINGHI POLARIS STEEL Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Offshore Alinghi Polaris," No. 0934, case No. F52194. Made in a limited edition of 2000 pieces in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, tonneau-shaped, octagonal bezel, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, "Regatta" function, registers and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and octagonal bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, crown and buttons with rubber cap, case back engraved with a compass, crown with rubber cap at 10 to set the inner compass, sapphire crystal. Black, inner clous de Paris decoration, luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 6-hour and 20- minute (with red Alinghi logo) registers, inner red 10 minutes scale outer minute/seconds track, outermost bidirectional revolving compass graduation, aperture for the "Regatta" function. Luminous steel baton hands, luminous red arrow hand for the 10 minutes counter. Cal. 2326/2847, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 50 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 segment.