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Descriptif du lot
Audemars Piguet have always been famed for their mastery of high complications, unrelentingly striving for both excellence and new innovation in watchmaking. This Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph reference 25977ST.OO.D002CR.01 is formidably impressive. Launched in 2003 in very small numbers, the present Audemars Piguet Royal Oak reference 25977ST is an impressive, stately, and mechanically complicated timepiece.
The watch measures 44mm and has been entirely crafted in stainless steel, including its bracelet. Reference 25977ST features a chronograph and tourbillon which happens to be visible at the bottom register of the black Tapisserie dial. On the rear, a sapphire caseback allows for one to view caliber in-house caliber 2889 featuring Côtes de Genève, anglage beveling, and mirror-polished screw heads all finished to the highest degree.
With this stainless steel Royal Oak Offshore, Audemars Piguet collectors and those looking for a supreme example of an AP high complication wristwatch of which few others exist, need not search any further.
The Chronograph
For timing one or more events is the most important and popular wristwatch complication and one which has many practical applications. Patented in 1862, the chronograph has been successfully miniaturized so that wristwatches can be used to time events (or two simultaneous events with a split-seconds chronograph) and times recorded up to 12 hours in some cases. Where a tachymeter scale is present on the dial, calculations of speed over a distance can be made.
The Tourbillon
Invented and patented by the genius Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801, is one of the most enduring technical improvements to timekeeping precision and has been continually improved to extreme degrees. In a tourbillon, the entire escapement revolves so that any adverse effects on timekeeping caused by the watch’s position – up, down, sideways etc, is equalized. The tourbillon is also a very visually appealing complication and it has become an important feature of many of the great modern complicated wristwatches.
The watch measures 44mm and has been entirely crafted in stainless steel, including its bracelet. Reference 25977ST features a chronograph and tourbillon which happens to be visible at the bottom register of the black Tapisserie dial. On the rear, a sapphire caseback allows for one to view caliber in-house caliber 2889 featuring Côtes de Genève, anglage beveling, and mirror-polished screw heads all finished to the highest degree.
With this stainless steel Royal Oak Offshore, Audemars Piguet collectors and those looking for a supreme example of an AP high complication wristwatch of which few others exist, need not search any further.
The Chronograph
For timing one or more events is the most important and popular wristwatch complication and one which has many practical applications. Patented in 1862, the chronograph has been successfully miniaturized so that wristwatches can be used to time events (or two simultaneous events with a split-seconds chronograph) and times recorded up to 12 hours in some cases. Where a tachymeter scale is present on the dial, calculations of speed over a distance can be made.
The Tourbillon
Invented and patented by the genius Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801, is one of the most enduring technical improvements to timekeeping precision and has been continually improved to extreme degrees. In a tourbillon, the entire escapement revolves so that any adverse effects on timekeeping caused by the watch’s position – up, down, sideways etc, is equalized. The tourbillon is also a very visually appealing complication and it has become an important feature of many of the great modern complicated wristwatches.