26,400 CHF
Royal Oak Offshore, “Alinghi Polaris” Audemars Piguet, “Royal Oak Offshore Alinghi Polaris”, movement No. 628959, No. 1298, case No. F52558, Ref. 26040ST. Made in a limited edition of 2000 examples in 2006, sold on July 18th, 2006. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel wristwatch, round button fly-back chronograph with “Regatta” function, registers and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by guarantee and instruction booklet. 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, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands, luminous red lozenge 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
