Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 58

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE GRAND PRIX REF. 26290 IO., No 766/1750 Audemars Piguet, "Royal Oak Offshore, Grand Prix, Limited Edition", No. 766/1750, case No. F73818, Ref. 26290IO. Made in a limited edition of 1750 pieces in 2010. Sold on September 27th, 2010. Very fine and very rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, forged carbon fiber, titanium and ceramic wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet titanium buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate of warranty and instruction booklet and an Audemars Piguet service invoice dated February 2012.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured witHEIGHT hexagonal screws, carbon-fiber bezel, pushbuttons and crown, side profile of the bezel mimicking the ventilations on a brake disc's edges, screwdown crown inspired by a gear wheel and push buttons inspired by brake cooling ducts, sapphire crystals. Red, black and yellow with applied baton indexes, outer fifths of a second divisions, outermost tachometer on a frosted copper reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel stylized baton hands. Cal. 3126/ 3840, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes decoration, 59 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rim rotor.