Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 582

Audemars Piguet Ref. 25863TI Royal Oak Offshore T3 Titanium Audemars Piguet, Genève, Royal Oak Offshore T3, specially designed in cooperation with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the film ?Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines?? case No. F00877, Ref. 25863TI. Made in a limited series of 1000 examples in 2003. Very fine and rare, oversized, octagonal, self-winding, water resistant, titanium wristwatch with date, secured round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an Audemars Piguet titanium buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, instruction booklet and ?Terminator? dvd set.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back and bezel secured with eight hexagonal screws, winding-crown with security guard, push buttons with security levers, case back with special ?T3? decoration, sapphire crystal with Cyclop lens.
D. Bi-color, anthracite and black with checkerboard decoration, luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale, aperture for the date. Luminous steel 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, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm Property of a Japanese Collector