Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 436

AUDEMARS PIGUET END OF DAYS Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic - End of Days", No. 343/500, movement No. 482242, case No. E21777, Ref. 25770SN. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples in 1999 in collaboration with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel with black PVD-coating wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date. Accompanied by a titanium and PVD Audemars Piguet deployant buckle, an extra Velcro strap, and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, PVD-coated, screw-down steel and rubber winding crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed polished stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. Black, "clous-de-Paris" decoration with luminous yellow 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 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 fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm.