Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 189

Audemars Piguet - White Gold & Diamonds - Royal Oak - Shaquille O?Neal Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Shaquille O?Neal,? No. 14/96, case no G02980, Ref. 26134 BC, Made in a limited edition of 96 pieces in white gold in 2007. 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 18K white gold buckle. Accompanied by the original basketball-shaped fitted box, user's manual and guarantee.

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), screw-down push-buttons and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Textured black with applied Arabic numerals, inverted two and three numerals set with rubies to represent Shaq?s basketball jersey number (32), outer 1/5th seconds track and red tachometer scale, 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.