Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 255

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26014 BOUTIQUE EDITION PVD COATED STAINLESS STEEL Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore, Automatic, La Boutique 40 E. 57th New York, case No. F-02748. Made circa 2012 to commemorate the opening of the Audemars Piguet New York Boutique. Very fine and rare, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel PVD-coating wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box.

Three-body, PVD-coated, screw-down steel and rubber winding crown, octagonal bezel with 8 hexagonal recessed polished stainless steel nuts screwed to 8 screws on the case back, back engraving featuring the façade of the boutique and La Boutique 40E, 57th, sapphire crystal. Black with checker board decoration and luminous radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous white 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.