Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 93

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25770 END OF DAYS, PVD COATED STAINLESS STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic - End of Days, No. 428/500, case No. E25979. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in circa 2000 in collaboration with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel PVD-coating wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel PVD-coated Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Origin, spare strap and service invoice dated 10/9/2008.

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 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.