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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 236

Royal Oak Offshore - T3 Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore T3", specially designed in cooperation with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the film "Terminator Three - Rise of the Machines?. No. F00023, Made especially for Arnold Schwarzenegger outside the limited edition in 2003. Very fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, titanium wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet titanium buckle. Accompanied by a box and certificate.

CHF 60,000 - 70,000

USD 55,000 - 65,000 / EUR 37,000 - 45,000

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, winding-crown with security guard, push buttons with security levers, case back with special "T3" decoration, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite with textured pattern, luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclopsaperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/ 2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm.


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Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) IIs an Austrian-American actor, politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. He was elected on October 7, 2003 in a special recall election which removed sitting Governor Gray Davis from office. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003 to serve the remainder of Davis' term which lasted until January 2007. Nicknamed the Austrian Oak - and more recently The Governator and Conan the Republican, his most famous films include The Terminator (and its sequels), Predator, Conan the Barbarian, True Lies, and Total Recall.