Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 449

AUDEMARS PIGUET, REF. 26133 ST, ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE, SHAQUILLE O?NEAL, LIMITED EDITION OF 20 PIECES, STEEL Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Shaquille O?Neal,? No. 10/20, movement No. 682550, case No. G 02686, Ref. 26133 ST, Made in a limited edition of 20 pieces in stainless steel in 2007. 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 by the original basketball-shaped wooden case and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin.

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

USD 22,000 - 33,000 / EUR 17,000 - 25,000

Sold: CHF 22,500

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 fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm. Thickness 15 mm


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Made in a limited edition of 960 pieces in steel and 96 pieces in white gold, the fi rst 20 pieces were made especially for Shaquille O Neal and his close entourage. This is the fi rst time that such a piece has appeared at auction.