The Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar 26574 Watch Review
The Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar 26574 Watch Review
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The Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar 26574 Watch Review |
The appearance of a brand new perpetual calendar Royal Oak
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The Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar 26574 Watch Review |
From Audemars Piguet is one thing watch collectors do not take gently. It had been AP, in the end, who had been the initial manufacture to make a perpetual watch with leap year indicator completely during the 1950s. It had been also Audemars Piguet, alongside only Patek Philippe, who'd be producing perpetual calendar wristwatches of any sort for that better a part of one half-century. The QP has always performed a huge role in AP's history, even though we demonstrated the new, updated 41 mm perpetuals a couple of days back, we're now here to inform you the 5th model within the selection - cased in gold.
The 550d - reference 26574BA - remains 41 mm across, and joins the needed announced steel and rose-gold examples, both offered having a blue or silver dial. The brand new yellow-gold example too includes a blue tapisserie dial we have all arrived at expect on the Royal Oak.
Within the QP is definitely the legendary AP 2120 caliber
However the perpetual module continues to be up-sized to maintain a totally balanced dial display. Further, the brand new RO perpetuals the very first time have a 52-week indicator round the perimeter from the dial, something only seen on grand complications before this announcement.
Still, why is the Royal Oak stand out is the amount of detail compensated towards the finishing from the situation, and bracelet. The brushed fronts, the beveled and polished sides, the way in which light bounces off each sharp position is completely incredible, and one of the reasons why the Royal Oak brand remains so strong in the end these years. The situation finishing about this new yellow-gold perpetual is, basically, just like it will get along with a prime illustration of traditional Swiss watchmaking in the current era.
As the purists (myself incorporated) love the 39 mm diameter from the original Royal Oak (still obtainable in the 15202 Jumbo), the 41 mm diameter within the situation of the new up-sized perpetual is sensible, and feels directly on the wrist. The Royal Oak perpetual is continuing to grow using the occasions, and thus must its diameter, I guess.
Even though the 39 mm perpetual was possibly simpler
And much more subtle, the upgrades towards the watch when it comes to quality around the dial side greater than compensate for the 2 additional millimeters across. For instance, see this photorealistic, azure bound, laser etched moon-phase display, withdrawn from the oversized tapisserie dial. Just fantastic.
In addition relating to this particular watch in accordance with its rose-gold peers is the fact that, well, it is operational! Gold has lengthy been pressed aside as modern tastes have switched towards the warmth and magnificence of rose gold. It is just now in 2015 that people start to see watchmakers beginning to favor the golden jewelry of gold - something which I personally really enjoy. A rose-gold watch isn't any doubt beautiful, and extremely chic, but there's something so pure about gold. It's, in the end, the standard metal of virtually all early wrist and pocket watches. It's the metal that housed numerous finest watches ever created, and on the top of this, gold can, if worn the proper way, look absolutely beautiful. This is among individuals instances, certainly.
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