Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 195

AUDEMARS PIGUET REF. 26158 ARNOLD'S ALL-STARS LIMITED EDITION CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Arnold's All-Stars After-School Adventures," Limited Edition, Automatic, Chronograph, case No. G 08725, Ref. 26158. Made in a limited edition of 350 pieces in 2008. Sold July 8th, 2008. Very fine and rare, very large and heavy, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with date, square button chronograph, tachometer and an 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by the original wooden fitted box with a mounted photo inside the cover of "Arnold's All-Stars After-School Adventures" group, Certificate of Authenticity, warranty and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws and engraved: "Arnold`s All-Stars After-School Adventures," straight curved lugs, sapphire crystal. Guilloche brown with applied pink gold radial Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale to 500 UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous pink gold baton hands. Cal. 3126/3840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 59 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold rotor.