Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 340

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE TRIPLE DATE NO.001 YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore Triple Date Automatic, No. 001, case No. D 67922. Made in 1996. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with triple date calendar 18K yellow gold AP Royal Oak folding buckle.

Three-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold bolts also securing the reverse, screwed-down gold winding crown with rubber cap protected by the crown guard, inset calendar adjusters to the band, sapphire crystal. Matt black with "Clous-de-Paris" decoration, luminous white gold indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, outer graduation for the date, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 2127/2827, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with 21K gold segment.