Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 338

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26020 ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore," case No. F62090, Ref. 26020 ST. Made circa 2006. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped with octagonal bezel, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and booklets.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, crown and buttons with rubber cap protected by the crown guard, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Bicolor white and blue, checkerboard decoration, with black Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Steel and black baton hands. Cal. 2326/ 2840, 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.