65.000€

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph Tropical 25860ST. Tropical dials are appreciated both for their appearance and for their irony. What was a flawed dial has evolved to the point where it is more collectible than the same dial without the aforementioned "flaw." Basically, it is serendipity at its peak. While some brands have a number of watches on which tropicalization is known to occur (Rolex is one example over all, with tropical dials found on the early Submariner, GMT and Milgauss as well as the modern 116 520), this event is much rarer for Audemars Piguet . Not only is the number of references known to tropicalize much smaller, the best-known examples being Ref. 54 02, Ref. 15 002 and "The Beast" 25 721-but also the number of examples that tropicalize would seem, judging from the historical record, to be very small. The present example of ref. 25860 is already a representative of this rarefied-and therefore extremely collectible-category, but it can also be regarded as the rarest actualization to be found on Audemars Piguet pieces.

Ref.	25860ST
Year	2000
Case	Steel
Size	39 mm
Bracelet	Steel
Closing	Deployànte
Dial	Black
Movement	Automatic
Status	Used
Box	No
Warranty	No
Seller Warranty	Yes

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