Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 140

AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE LIMITED EDITION ?ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER? Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak Offshore Arnold Schwarzenegger?, case No. F01247, Ref. 26007BA. Made in a limited edition of 400 pieces 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.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, screwed-down winding-crown, sapphire crystal.
D. Brown with textured pattern, luminous Arabic numerals, guilloche champagne subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous gold baton hands
M. 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm.