Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
New York, Sep 30, 2015
LOT 281
AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. F01177 ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER YELLOW GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak Offshore Arnold Schwarzenegger, Limited Edition," Ref. No. F 01177. Made especially for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. Very fine and rare, oversized, tonneau-shaped, 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.
USD 35,000 - 45,000
HKD 270,000 - 350,000 / CHF 34,000 - 43,500
Sold: USD 37,500
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.
