The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra Thin Openworked 

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Watch Review

First debuted in the 2012 SIHH in platinum, and also at the 2016 SIHH HODINKEE's Cara Barrett introduced us towards the gold version. This season, AP is releasing the timepiece in 2 new metals: stainless and pink gold. AP has additionally announced that fundamental essentials latter watches which will provide the AP Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin Openworked using this skeletonized movement design. As Cara pointed out in her own 2016 story, the very first skeletonized AP would be a 1921 pocket watch and also the first skeletonized Royal Oak is made in 1986, so they are participants inside a lengthy, storied tradition.

Openworking" nowadays is really a term 

The thing is applied rather loosely, however, the word really describes a movement that has had its actual mainplate opened up up (in addition to, typically, its bridges). Typically it had been completed with piercing files and incredibly fine saws - nowadays spark erosion machines frequently substitute, along with other mechanical or semi-mechanical finishing techniques used too however, AP states that "filing, decorating, and finishing" are "solely made by hands" of these watches. Bravo.

The fundamental qualifying criterion 

For knowing the caliber of openwork, apart from the prosperity of the overall design, is the quality of transparency achieved. In the past really extreme openworking would be a niche of only a couple of from the haute horlogerie Swiss brands, and among them being Audemars Piguet.

With that standard they are very effective watches. They are not really extreme in the quality of skeletonization achieved as probably the most dramatic examples in the twentieth century however they still provide a amount of lightness that contrasts superbly using the angular, more aggressive visuals from the Royal Oak situation.

Both watches are identical in relevant dimensions and specs: 41mm across and 4.46mm thick, having a hands-wound tourbillon movement (caliber 2924) that is 31.5mm across and 4.46mm tall. The movement runs at 21,600 vph, having a 70-hour power reserve.