Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015
LOT 628
AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 25770 END OF DAYS, PVD COATED STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic - End of Days, No. 429/500, case No. E25930. 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.
HKD 155,000 - 230,000
USD 20,000 - 30,000 / CHF 18,900 - 27,700
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. 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. 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 flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 1 |
As new |
Movement: 1** |
As new Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |