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New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 255

White Gold Royal Oak Offshore, Shaquille O?Neal Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Shaquille O?Neal,? Ref. 26134BC, No. 53/96,Made in a limited edition of 96 pieces in white gold in 2008. Very fine and very rare, heavy, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold and diamond-set wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet 18Kwhite gold buckle. Accompanied the originalwarranty and original basketball-shaped fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, bezel set with 32 diamonds (Top Wesselton 2.25 carats), push-buttons and crown, screw-down crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with with textured clous de Paris pattern, applied Arabic indexes, inverted two and three numerals set with rubies to represent Shaq?s basketball jersey number (32), outer fifths of a second divisions, outermost tachometer on a concave black reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 3126/ 3840, 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. 46 mm. Thickness 15 mm.