Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 95

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26042 ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE JUAN PABLO MONTOYA SIGNATURE CASEBACK TITANIUM Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore "Juan Pablo Montoya" Chronograph, case No. F 27153, Ref. 26030. Made in a limited edition of 20 pieces in 2004 with Montoya's signature on reverse. Very fine, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water resistant, titanium, steel and carbon fiber wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Authenticity, hang tag, instruction booklet and booklets.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back and bezel secured with 8 hexagonal screws, bezel with carbon fiber inlay, back crystal with Juan Pablo Montoya's signature, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystals. Textured silver with luminous steel baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer tachometer graduation, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 2226, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes 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 segment.