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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 100

?End Of Days? Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic", "End of Days", No. 384/500. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples circa 2000, in collaboration with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel with black PVD-coating gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a Kevlar strap.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down rubber top winding-crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. Anthracite "Clous de Paris" decoration with painted luminous 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 ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, straight line lever escapement,, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.