Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 629

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Arnold Schwarzenegger, Limited Edition," case No. F 01177, Ref. 26007BA. Made especially for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. Very fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an Audemars Piguet 18K yellow gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and hang tag.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed- down winding-crown, sapphire crystal, back engraved with Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature. Bicolor brown and champagne with checker board pattern, luminous Arabic numerals, guilloche champagne subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation and 1/5th seconds track, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous gold 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.