12,980 CHF
Stainless Steel “Royal Oak" Chronograph Audemars Piguet, “Royal Oak, Automatic”, No. 258, case No. D-89356. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal pink gold screws and nuts, screweddown hexagonal buttons and winding crown, sapphire crystal. Anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with luminous white indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. White luminous "baton" hands. Cal. 2385, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14