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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Tourbillon RD#3 26670ST
The Royal Oak 50th-anniversary party is not over yet. In January this year, Audemars Piguet feted the half-century?of its iconic Royal Oak with a host of celebratory models, including a 41mm Royal Oak Flying Tourbillon powered by a recent calibre developed for the brand's Code 11.59 collection. What we are seeing today is also a Royal Oak Flying Tourbillon but one that will excite watch purists because it is the first Jumbo in fifty years to be fitted with an ultra-thin flying tourbillon movement. The challenge for AP's watchmakers and engineers was to accommodate a complication reserved for 41mm ROs inside the smaller 39mm Jumbo case. Given the technical solutions developed by the team to create the new ultra-thin calibre 2968, the Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Extra-Thin 26670ST?is catalogued as Audemars Piguet's third Research & Development project.JumboThe Jumbo is the closest you can get to Gerald Genta's original stainless steel Royal Oak. Distinguished by its octag
Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie
With an ultra-thin perpetual calendar, an openworked tourbillon, a minute repeater Supersonnerie and more recently, a flying tourbillon chronograph, the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet wasn’t short of complications… But the latest addition in the range goes a step further with a movement that features what’s probably the highest complication of them all, a grande sonnerie – something only a handful of watchmakers are capable of. So here’s the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie, which also pays tribute to the makers, featuring handcrafted enamel dials by master enameller Anita Porchet.The grande sonnerie at Audemars PiguetChiming watches, or watches that strike the time, take us back to the origins of watchmaking. Invented in the 14th century, striking clocks had no dials and announced the time with chimes. Audemars Piguet has specialised in chiming mechanisms since its establishment in 1875. Records show that more than half
Auction - The June 2022 Online Auction of A Collected Man
As some of you might know, A Collected Man is an online platform dedicated to curating and selling some of the most desirable watches on hand. Based in London, ACM and its founder Silas Walton have gained an impressive reputation among the collecting community, offering a selection of rare watches from high-end brands as well as superb pieces made by independent watchmakers – remember the Philippe Dufour Grande et Petite Sonnerie Wristwatch sold for a record-breaking $7.63 million…? That was ACM. Now, the online platform specialized in high-end watches announces its third auction, with a short but beautifully curated selection of timepieces, including a rare Santos-Dumont limited edition, a stunning Daniel Roth Monopusher or a steel Frank Muller prototype…This online auction of neo-vintage watches by A Collected Man will start today, June 22, 2022, at 2PM London Time and will run until June 29, 2022. The watches are offered with a starting bid (from GBP 5,000 to GPB 2
5 Cool Finds - Interesting Chronographs from Chopard, Constant, GP and Sinn (and one extra travel watch) - Monochrome Watches
We continue this week with the sixth instalment of our market finds?“5 Cool Finds”, in collaboration with auctioneer Catawiki. Once again, the story is simple. Instead of focusing exclusively on vintage watches, we prefer to look at what we, here at Monochrome-Watches love and know, and we think will be the coming trend: Youngtimers. Here is our expert Ilias' selection of 5 wristwatches, including two racing inspired chronographs from Chopard and Frederique Constant, a traveler’s watch and? a gracious chronograph from Girard Perregaux, and last but not least, a re-edition of a space chronograph by Sinn.Girard Perregaux Traveler IIIf you look for the perfect travelers watch, look no further, because this Girard Perregaux is perhaps the perfect example. It has an automatic movement that features a date and a GMT complication in addition to the very useful and slightly rare alarm function. This GP is 38 mm in diameter but looks bigger on the wrist, it wears more like a 4
Kicking It Old School: A Grand Complication by Stacy Perman - Monochrome Watches
Give us a book steeped in horological history, featuring names like Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin, filled with tales of watch collecting one-upmanship, and available on Kindle, and we have the perfect summer read. A Grand Complication by Stacy Perman transports us to the worlds of James Ward Packard and Henry Graves Jr. Ward and Graves went head-to-head in a phantom duel to reach the summit of haute horology, the grand complication.Perman writes, The two men never met, although their lives intersected. Obsessed with watches, they crossed swords in the dark, each attempting to possess the most ingeniously complicated watch ever produced. As much a glimpse of America's Gilded Age of the 1920s as it is a tale of watchmaking frontiers, Perman's A Grand Complication transports the reader to a bygone age of industrial tycoons and irrational economic exuberance – an age when anything was possible. Match these two well-heeled collectors, for whom money was no object, with their
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