“When I was considering this new watch, I wanted to create a dynamic contrast of surfaces and settled on the idea of taking the tapisserie dial in the opposite direction towards pure reflection,” says Carolina Bucci.

Many people had mixed reviews about the first Frosted Gold Royal Oak. In my opinion the frosted gold gives the AP a nice texture which looks great on the wrist. Although some people may have not liked the first version, this new limited edition version is newly updated and improved. The mirrored dial adds more heat to this timepiece selling at $53,600.

Basics:

Diameter: 37mm
Case Material: 18k yellow gold
Dial: Mirrored
Indexes: Applied stick markers at the hours
Lume: Luminescent coating to hour markers and hands
Water Resistance: 50 meters
Strap/Bracelet: Frosted gold bracelet

Audemars Piguet has continued on their development path and in 2000, while celebrating their 125th anniversary, their first model with Equation of time, sunrise, sunset and perpetual calendar was released.  To this day, Audemars Piguet watches are still meticulously handcrafted and designed by watchmakers.

In the video below, a clip will be showing how a Swiss watch is made & assembled from beginning to end. The video is very eye catching and should be interesting for those who love their wristwatches. This will give you an insight of how all these small mechanical parts come together to form a majestic timepiece like this AP.

The previous most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction was a solid gold Rolex with diamond indices that was once owned by Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam. The gorgeous “Paul Newman” white dial with black sub-registers, push-down chronograph buttons, and black acrylic bezel. What you may not know is that back when these watches were in production, no one wanted these “exotic” dials and they sat on the shelf for years. They started to become popular in the 1980s when Italian collectors discovered them and nicknamed them “Paul Newman”.

AP was founded in a small town called Le Brassus, in 1875. It is in the heart of Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. Back then Vallée de Joux was mostly known for its mountain ranges and its farming. During winter, the lands stayed dormant while the villagers turned to watchmaking. Many families in Vallée de Joux was well-known as watchmaking families. Audemars Piguet is still independently owned by the families of the original founders.

2. Audemars Piguet is still independently owned by the families of the original founders

While AP is a very popular and renowned watch brand that brings in close to one billion dollars in revenue, Audemars Piguet is the oldest fine watch-making manufacturer that is still managed by its founding families. This allows AP to pave it own and unique path in the future of watchmaking.

3. Audemars Piguet is the watchmaker behind many of today’s complications

Through their 140 year history, AP has kept the pace high with new innovations and high tech mechanics that change and inspire the watchmaking world. Audemars Piguet were the first in the world in 1858 to create a pocket watch incorporated with jumping-seconds hand. AP inspire to create new mechanisms and improve the watch world.

4.Audemars is the master of Complications

AP has kept the founders’ legacy of creating the greatest complications out there. There are only a handful of watchmakers in Audemars that have reached that point of creating such amazing complications. It takes up to 4 to 6 months for a watchmaker to build a grande complication.