Audemars Piguet Two-Tone Dress Watch

This slim and elegant piece couldn't be any further removed from the bulky brute of the Royal Oak Offshore line that the brand is perhaps most commonly known for amongst today's collectors.

Hearkening back to a simpler time, this stunning white gold dress watch is brilliantly representative of the design language of the 1970s - an era in which the maison made so few timepieces per year that many were unique pieces, or part of an incredibly limited production run.

Featuring a 33mm wide octagonal case with integrated bracelet, a gorgeous brushed silver dial with applied indices at the cardinal positions and a matching ‘stick’ handset, the showstopper here is the casing material - this incredible dress piece is constructed out of solid 18k white and yellow gold throughout the case and bracelet - something you'll note immediately upon picking it up! You'll definitely notice its heft on the wrist.

Powered by a self-winding movement, watches such as this one are an incredible testament to the amazing design risks Audemars Piguet was prepared to take at a point in history in which mechanical watchmaking was at risk of disappearing forever. Rumor has it one of those wild risks paid off...

...it may not have been this one, but man we're glad they made this beautiful thing!

There are certain watches that define a brand, informing its design ethos and becoming nothing short of iconic in the minds of collectors. For Audemars Piguet, that watch is the Royal Oak, in all its multitudinous incarnations. Yet the manufacture from Le Brassus did not earn its seat in the triumvirate of leading watch brands — the so-called Big Three — on the success of the Royal Oak alone.

In fact, both Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet came from long lines of watchmakers, and made their reputations long before the Royal Oak was conceived. Their reputations rested on their ability to create incredibly elegant timepieces in numerous styles. While some of these timepieces were simple, elegant dress watches, others were one-off or short-series pieces produced at the rate of a handful per year. (Some years, Audemars Piguet only produced a few hundred watches in total.) Calendar watches, chronographs, minute repeaters — all the delights of haute horlogerie were part and parcel of the AP oeuvre long before the Royal Oak made its debut in 1972.

Technical innovations from AP abound and include the first minute-repeating movement, the first skeleton watch and an ultra-thin automatic tourbillon. Newer collections, such as the Code 11.59 from 2019, see the maison continue to develop new and exciting watches and calibers, the likes of which aren’t based upon tired horological tropes from models past. (Though if vintage reissues are your bag, AP does have a special “Remaster” line — currently consisting of just one model — that reimagines some of its classical, complicated pieces from the mid-20th century.)

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