Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 285

"End Of Days" Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic - End of Days", No. 136/500, Ref. E 21670. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples circa 2000 in collaboration with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel with black PVD-coating gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a Kevlar strap. Accompanied by an extra strap.

C. Three-body, PVD-coated, screwed-down rubber top windingcrown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite, "Clous-de-Paris" decoration with painted luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary satiné black dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, "cyclops" aperture for the date. Luminous yellow "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm.