Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 390

AUDEMARS PIGUET, ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE, REF. 26078PO. RUBENS BARRICHELLO II PLATINUM, NO. 023 Audemars Piguet, ?Royal Oak Offshore, Limited Edition, Rubens Barrichello II?, No. 023/150, case No. F73818, Ref. 26078PO. Made in a limited edition of 150 pieces in platinum in 2006. Sold on February 18th, 2007. Very fine and very rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum and ceramic wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet platinum deployant buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate of warranty and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, ultra-resistant antishock technical ceramics for the bezel, pushbuttons and crown, side profi le of the bezel mimicking the ventilations on a brake disc's edges, screw-down crown inspired by a gear wheel and push buttons inspired by brake cooling ducts, case back with special Rubens Barrichello logo, sapphire crystal. D. Midnight blue with applied luminous baton indexes, outer fi fths of a second divisions, outermost tachometer on a frosted silver reserve, the center pierced with a mega tapisserie racing motif to reveal the movement, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel stylized baton hands. M. Cal. 2326/ 2840, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 15 mm