$23,400
Royal Oak Offshore “Ginza” Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph,” movement No. 682278, No. 080/200, case No. G 02043, Ref. 26180ST. Made in a limited series of 200 examples in 2007 to celebrate the new Audemars Piguet boutique in Japan, sold on January 21st, 2008. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel and diamond wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and booklet. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding crown, case back engraved “Ginza,” sapphire crystal. Two-tone black, clous de Paris and guilloche decoration with black-edged Arabic numerals, number 7 pave-set with 9 small diamonds, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale on an inclined reserve, aperture for the date, sapphire crystal. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 3126/3840, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 59 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11
