11,875 CHF
AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK, SYDNEY TO HOBART, LIMITED EDITION OF 20 PIECES Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak", Automatic, movement No. 459935, case No. D88903, Ref. 15070ST. Made in a limited edition of 20 pieces in 1998, sold on August 29th 2000. Fine and extremely rare, self winding, tonneau-shaped, waterresistant, stainless steel mid-size wristwatch with date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original warranty, attestation, instruction booklet, overhaul invoice from 2006, extra link, hang tag and fitted box and an Audemars Piguet Certificate of Origin. Two-body, polished and brushed, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal white gold screws and 8 white gold nuts on the transparent case back around it engraved with Sydney to Hobart offi cial timekeeper, hexagonal winding- crown, sapphire crystals. Electric blue with orange painted baton and dart indexes, aperture for the date. Orange "bâton" hands. Cal. 2225, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance-spring, 21K gold rotor engraved with a nautical fl ag. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm. Notes Made in a limited edition of 20 pieces only for the Sydney to Hobart boat race and distributed in Australia only, the watch inscribed itself in the continued inte
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-05-13