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Audemars Piguet is extremely pleased to unveil its new Openworked self-winding Royal Oak watch.The Royal Oak Skeleton watch has smartly united traditional and modern elements. The Manufacture in Le Brassus has long been highly appreciated for the supreme quality of its skeleton movements. The art of skeletonization, mastered by just a handful of watch manufacturers, requires special technical and artistic skills. From the technical point of view, it is necessary to maintain the watch�s precision and reliability. From the artistic point of view, the movement skeletonization requires extremely meticulous decorative work based on considerable dexterity and experience. The Audemars Piguet latest creation represents a resolutely modern skeleton timepiece reflecting a more architectural and more contemporary stylistic evolution. The high-end finishing, demonstrating understated execution and hand-drawn file strokes, accentuates the case su***ce treatment and the satin-brushed bezel.The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Skeleton watch accommodates the new Calibre 3129, the creation of which was based on the idea of breaking with traditions. As a result, the model demonstrates pure and contemporary lines, not following the codes of traditional skeletonized timepieces.The movement demonstrates restrained, pure cut-outs, straight satin-brushing on the mainplate and on the bridges. It is also characterized by intensification of colors, contrasts and shades due to completely hand-crafted bevelling. The colors range from grey to anthracite, the latter achieved with help of an anthracite galvanic su***ce treatment. The predominating grey shades nicely contrast with the shade of the gilt brass gear trains and the color of the 22K solid gold oscillating weight, also openworked and featuring the AP monogram. The new all grey-clad self-winding movement of the Openworked self-winding Royal Oak watch is accommodated by the 39 mm case with a see-through case-back. The beautifully openworked anthracite dial is completed with applied and facetted gold hour-markers.Calibre 3129 has been derived from the base movement - the brand�s Calibre 3120 - a highly-reliable mechanical self-winding movement, designed and developed independently by the Manufacture in Le Brassus. The 253-component Calibre 3129 animates the hours, minutes and central seconds. It incorporates a cross-through balance bridge for optimal shock-resistance and a direct drive seconds hand to avoid any jerking. The use of a variable-inertia balance equipped with eight inertia-blocks guarantees stable rating accuracy. Calibre 3129 is also extremely user-friendly as it offers a stop-seconds function and a 60-hour power reserve.The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Skeleton watch has been created in two versions ?a steel case coupled with a steel bracelet fitted with a folding clasp and an 18K pink gold case presented on an alligator leather strap, also with a folding clasp. The timepiece is 50-meter water-resistant.

Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater Hand-Wound in Titanium (Ref. 26371Ti.OO.D002CR.01)AP will soon present its new Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater hand-wound watch in titanium (Ref. 26371Ti.OO.D002CR.01.) The official premiere of the timekeeper is scheduled for the SIHH 2011 trade show that will take place in January, 2011.While some premium watchmakers concentrate their efforts on creating timepiece that look “scandalous” and “daring,” the real super-brands like Audemars Piguet tend to go the other way around: they build their watches around daringly innovative mechanisms.The new Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater watch is one of these rare examples.Although some persons will buy this watch mostly for its unconventional look, its main selling point is the new manual-wind movement, which is equipped with a reworked version of the lubrication free escapement created by Audemars Piguet.The modified escapement is still based on a mid-eighteenth century design by certain Robert Robin, but also offers a new construction of the balance wheel, which is composed not of a single balance- spring, but of two balance-springs placed top to tail.According to the company, the new system combines high efficiency of a direct impulse escapement (meaning the balance wheel receives an impulse directly from the escape wheel) with the robustness of the time-proven Swiss lever escapement.Compared to the traditional Swiss lever escapement that didn’t change much during the last 200 years, the new system allows for better efficiency (and therefore extended power reserve,) higher accuracy (it ensures automatic compensation for potential poising flaws) and makes the module easier to make since it eliminates the need for the overcoil terminal curves.As it is often done with these types of movement, the three-barrel AP Caliber 2910 uses two different energy storage facilities that supply power for the time-measuring device and for the minute repeater module.The first pair of barrels allows for a power reserve of 165 hours (almost 7 days!) and the third barrel is reserved for the minute repeater.Since the striking mechanism and its gongs require enormous (on this scale) flow of power, the third barrel is also huge, being two and a half times larger than normal components.Other highlights of the mechanism include a balance-stop system and a new winding safety system that prevents time-setting while the striking mechanism is chiming its notes.The watch is delivered in a traditional for the Millenary line oval-shaped case in brushed titanium, which is for some unknown reason left non-water-resistant.The bezel of the same shape is done in polished titanium that provides the Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater with its superb looks.The oval-shaped dial of the watch leaves enough space to show current time and also display the very flat opposite-facing double balance-spring system that makes the watch so interesting.