Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 115

Audemars Piguet - Steel Royal Oak Offshore - Shaquille O?Neal Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Shaquille O?Neal,? No. 041/960, case No. G 02737, Ref. 26133 ST, Made in a limited edition of 960 pieces in stainless steel in 2007, sold February 23rd, 2008. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel buckle. Accompanied the original fitted box, user's manual and guarantee.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, screw-down hexagonal winding crown, sapphire crystal, back engraved: Royal Oak Offshore Shaquille O?Neal ? SHAQ with a basketball player and hoop. D. Textured black with applied Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation, 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. 52 mm. Thickness 15 mm.