Friday, April 30, 2010

BaselWorld 2010: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Calibre 2912


Audemars Piguet expresses archival affection in endless altered ways. Attitude is omnipresent, both as a antecedent of afflatus and as a backlog of invaluable know-how. Certain creations, absorbed with this accustomed bequest while aswell acerb abiding in the abreast era, accept paved the way for absolutely new approaches. They amalgamate attitude and technology, accomplished watchmaking and cutting-edge automated methods. The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm assuredly belongs to this class of aberrant watches. Its architectonics is innovative, its abstracts are daring, and it beats to the accent of a 100% centralized movement.

Design

- 18-carat blush gold case

- Artificial carbon bezel

- Ceramic acme and pushers

- Openworked dial

Calibre 2912

- High-performance alarm with column-wheel and coupling lever

- Tourbillon composed of added than 70 parts

- 237-hour ability reserve

- Twin fast-rotating barrels

Calibre 2912 is a hand-wound movement absolutely developed and produced by Audemars Piguet. It combines a tourbillon, a column-wheel alarm and a bifold barrel. Its abnormally avant-garde artful is bidding through the abreast appearance of the bridges and the all-embracing architecture. The azure clear exhibition aback provides a absolute appearance of the alarm and coupling bridges accentuating the aboriginal attributes of this movement through their geometrical appearance and atramentous eloxed aluminium material. The finishing is appropriately affected and anxiously executed.

The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm is advised for connoisseurs of accomplished watchmaking with a audible alternative for admirable mechanisms forth with a affection for beat designs. Their absorption will aboriginal be fatigued to the majestic breeding of the blush gold case with its chip pushpiece guards. The biconcave adorning account at 1,5, 7 and 11 o'clock adds a adult touch, while the alternating satin-brushed and able finishing enhances the clarification and artful address of anniversary surface. The backbone of this archetypal lies chiefly in contrasts. The ablaze afterglow of the blush gold is set off to optimal advantage by the surrounding atramentous zone. The allegorical octagonal bezel with its able hexagonal screws is fabricated of artificial carbon – an ultra-sporty streaked actual alone developed for Audemars Piguet. Widely acclimated in the aeriform industry, it has been acclimatized to the baby admeasurement of the locations and to the acrimonious finishing demands imposed by accomplished watchmaking standards. The pushpieces and the acme are in atramentous ceramics. It is account acquainted that the screw-lock acme is able with a torque-restricting arrangement that avoids the movement getting disproportionately artificial during winding. The punch displays the aforementioned play on contrasts, with the numerals continuing out acutely adjoin its snailed atramentous abject and the atramentous eloxed aluminium of the tourbillon and butt bridges. Symmetry aswell plays a arch role on this dial. The 30-minute adverse is echoed by the open-worked area absolute the tourbillon at 9 o'clock, while the butt cut-outs face anniversary added at 6 and 12 o'clock, amidst by an alluringly accomplished border. The ultimate attenuate data are provided by the blush gold activated numerals and the hour and minute easily with a bright center. The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm is teamed with a atramentous alligator covering band featuring an AP folding brooch in 18-carat blush gold.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph

Reference

26288OF.OO.D002CR.01

Pink gold case, atramentous crocodile covering strap


Movement

Calibre : 2912, hand-wound, two barrels, tourbillon

Total bore : 34.60 mm (15 1/3 lignes)

Casing diameter: 33.80

Thickness : 10.67 mm

30 jewels

328 parts

Up to 237-hour ability reserve

Cadence of the balance: 21,600 accordance per hour (3 Hz)

Finishing: all locations anxiously decorated: hand-polished chamfering; mainplate featuring baby circular-grained motifs, hand-drawn strokes; punch side: atramentous eloxed aluminum tourbillon arch and butt bridges; movement side: alarm arch adorned with Audemars Piguet signature and coupling arch in atramentous eloxed aluminum; snailed and baby circular-grained barrels address the Audemars Piguet signature.

Case
18-carat pink gold, scoops at 1, 5, 7 and 11 o'clock
Forged carbon bezel
Black ceramic crown and pushers
Crown with torque-restricting system
Diameter: 44 mm
Thickness: 16.60 mm
Sapphire crystal exhibition back with Royal Oak Offshore inscription
Water-resistant to 20 meters


Dial
Black, snailed and open-worked at 6, 9 and 12 o'clock
Applied hollowed pink gold numerals with luminescent coating
Black flange
Pink gold hour and minute hands with luminescent coating

Strap
Hand-sewn black alligator leather with large square scales, 18-carat pink gold AP folding clasp

Functions
Hours and minutes
Chronograph with sweep seconds hand and 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock
Flange bearing a tachometric scale

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