Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 107

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26325TS ROYAL OAK LEO MESSI LIMITED EDITION TANTALUM AND STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak "Leo Messi" Limited Edition Chronograph, No. 212 / 500, case No. H 72646, Ref. 26325TS. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces circa 2012. Very fine and rare, large, tonneau-shaped, self- winding, water-resistant, tantalum and stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 8 screws, octagonal tantalum bezel with 8 hexagonal gold screws, screwed-down hexagonal winding crown and buttons, case back engraved, sapphire crystal. Gray with luminous steel baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 2385, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 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 segment.