This discontinued circa 1990s stainless steel Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offershore family- 25807.ST.O.1010.ST.01 Royal Oak Offshore Triple Date full calendar.They were made around 1996-2000 and are pretty uncommon offshore, pop up occasionally for sale in the US & Asia market with priced around 8,000- 12,000 USD .
It’s cool complication while it has the tank-like build of the Offshore model line, it’s more conventionally sized case to comfortably wear it. It comes on its long, original and beautifully constructed steel bracelet and has a very low production number, indicating a manufacture date sometime near the model’s genesis circa 1996.
its unique combination of being a Royal Oak Offshore and being a sensible size. To be precise, the 3-piece case measured approximately 40mm across (inc. crown guards), about 37.5 mm directly across the bezel and 12.5mm thick. If you’ve handled the slightly behemoth 42-44mm ROOs of today, you’ll understand that that’s a significant reduction in size.
The heavy case with trademark visible gaskets appears unpolished showing its original satin finish with factory chamfers. The prominent and chunky faceted bezel, held in place by 8 white gold screws, also it never been polished
It is easily Excellent+ with all correct Royal Oak Offshore/Automatic and “D” Serial Number nomenclature present and crisp. Note also the very low model number of XX , making this one of the earlier batches of 25807ST produced and probably dating the watch to the model’s introductory year of 1996.
DIAL & HANDS: Characteristic stunning Royal Oak charcoal-black “grand tapisserie” (aka “waffle”) guilloché dial with white gold applied AP logo at “12” and luminous filled markers, as well as framed windows for the day & month and outer numeral track for the date–simply a beautiful and Mint original dial with a nice hint of patina to the Tritium lume and a crisp “Audemars Piguet” signature printed in white above the calendar windows. White gold hour and minute “paddle” hands are likewise Mint and also show a pleasingly subtle patina to their luminous fill. Large arrow-tipped white date pointer is also Mint. The small seconds hand has a tiny flaw visible under louping, Near Mint. Just a wonderful layout on this cool ROO triple date!
MOVEMENT: Under the hood is the Jaeger-LeCoultre derived AP caliber 2127/2827 automatic triple calendar movement with 36 jewels, 38 hours of power reserve, 21-karat gold edged oscillating rotor self-winding in both directions, shock protection and hack-setting of the time. The watch is keeping very good time and the quicksetting of the month and date activated by the sunken corrector buttons on the crown side of the case operate as they should, as does the setting of the day via 24-hour rotation of the hands in either direction. As stated above, this great movement was recently serviced in May of last year through The Timepiece Collection, an AP authorized dealer in New Jersey, and they have also recently followed up with a thorough examination of the watch and found it to be operating perfectly. This complicated Royal Oak will therefore come with a 6-month movement guarantee for all normal non-abusive use. As with most of these sorts of Triple Date movements, DO NOT use the quickset date & month correctors when the watch is between 10pm and 2am or you could damage the mechanism.
CROWN: Correct signed hexagonal screw down rubber-clad steel crown sits perfectly between the angled crown guards, screws down tightly and pulls out to the hacking time setting position as it should.
CRYSTAL: Near Mint flat sapphire crystal with no scratches and just a hint of roughness to some of its edges visible with a loupe.
BRACELET: This Royal Oak Offshore comes on its terrific original AP-signed first generation steel bracelet with butterfly style clasp. It is very tight and currently quite long, so should fit up to a 7 3/4″ wrist with 6 removable screwed links for sizing down. It has some scuffs and minor scratches from desk diving but overall is Excellent.
EXTRAS: Accompanying the watch will be the AP Oak Box , Certificate of origin , Tag, Setting Pin , from Timepiece Collection documenting over $1,000 worth of work, a very nice snap together AP brown leather travel case and a slim leather AP wallet with green and white accents.
Audemars Piguet, Royal Oak Offshore, 25807st.oo.1010st.01, Automatic Self Wind, Used, Production Year:1999, Case Material: Stainless Steel, Case Diameter: 38mm, Bezel Type: Fixed, Bezel Material: Stainless Steel, Dial Type: Analog, Dial Color: Blue, Crystal: Sapphire, Band Color: Black, Band Width: 23.0mm, Band Length: 7.5in, Box Only, External Condition: Like New,
Pre-Owned Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 25807ST. Steel 38mm Watch (Certified Authentic & Warranty)
