Audemars Piguet has introduced a slew of new high-end timepieces spanning its Royal Oak, Code 11.59, and experimental Concept lines, including many ceramic firsts.
Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon
This new Code 11.59 is an exercise in artistic simplicity, with a wide black onyx dial and an 18K white gold and black ceramic casing. The dial is kept fashionably simple, with just double-digit five-minute intervals in gold, matching the tone of the text, hands, and window framing the flying tourbillon at six o’clock, which for the first time incorporates a black PVD bridge.
Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph
A technically sophisticated timepiece is wrapped in a perfectly symmetrical design of black ceramic and 18K pink gold in this addition to the Code 11.59 series. The color palette of the 50-piece limited edition is carried across the movement of openworked bridges and skeletonised counters of its flyback chronograph.
Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT
The Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT is the first in the Concept family, with its 44mm sandblasted titanium case capped off with a satin-brushed and polished green ceramic bezel, crown, and pusher.
The PVD-black skeleton Calibre 2954 movement of the watch has green CVD-treated inlays that complement the ceramic parts, while the hands, logos, and crown insert are made of 18K pink gold. The style is completed by a green rubber strap.
A second time zone is displayed at three of the clock utilizing hour and day/night discs, and the crown position indication is used for time-setting, neutral, and winding. The manually wound watch has a power reserve of 10 days.
Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Openworked Tourbillon
Code 11.59 Audemars Piguet The 50-piece special edition, housed in a comparably small 41mm 18K white gold case with blue ceramic caseband – a first for the line – demonstrates why, after so much initial criticism, the Code 11.59 is becoming increasingly difficult to fault.
The openworked Calibre 2948 handwound movement, which is only 3.65m thick, is built in a complex latticework of layered ‘electric blue’ bridges colored via Atomic Layered Deposition (ALD).
