Audemars Piguet Millenary Tourbillion watch
Material: 18k Rose Gold
Movement: Cal.2861 hand-winding movement
Functions: Hours and Minutes
Diameter: 45mm
Crystal: Sapphire crystal glass, transparent case back
Water resistant: 20m
In 2001 Audemars Piguet released a colored crystal tourbillon wristwatch which pertains to the Edward Piguet Collection. Its board is made of divergent crystal which contains a small number of golden red crystals, and the board itself serves as the dial as well. In 2005 another homologous tourbillon wristwatch emerged while its board is made of natural translucent moss agate mineral. And today, with technology that has reached a high degree of excellence, Audemars Piguet created the powder – blue chalcedony board. The watchmaker, above all, chooses the firmest and most perfect part of a natural chalcedony ore as the raw material; then, with particular techniques, he cuts the piece into the rudiment of the board. By right of rich experience of the utilization of the natural ore, Audemard Piguet employs the unprecedented ultrasonic machining technique to the process of the quartzose chalcedony. The cutting precision, with the help of the Audemard Piguet’s original device, can be achieved 0. 01mm. However, this is just the preliminary work; what’s more, the watchmaker still needs to construct a movement and to take the risk that the board parts or is scratched up. Therefore, the assembly process requires skillful hands, or the translucent lace – like chalcedony board can never be accomplished faultlessly in the end.
The unique movement design which is imbued with poetry combines jewelery craft with mechanical technology, without parallel in history. The rim of the transparent sapphire crystal dial is decorated with two rose gold rings that is encrusted with diamonds, and other sparkling watches can never compare with it for it has already surpassed the definition of luxury. The silvery Arabic numerals engraved on the dial has continued one of the Millenary Collection’s trait, namely the eccentric aesthetics style. In addition, four ornamental rose gold rings that is encrusted with diamonds cross over the board, forming a three – dimensional effect. Moreover, people will forget themselves and even the time when seeing the beautiful picture formed by the use of sky blue, pearl white, and rose golden. The 45mm rose gold watchcase with diamonds is just like a gorgeous frame while the fashionable brown sharkskin watchband connected across it is perfect.
Of course, such a delicate gem ought to collocate with the wistful tourbillon, a result of the distinctive watchmaking geniuses’ challenge to the gravity. This precise device can help the two subtlest parts of the movement – escapement device and hairspring balance wheel get rid of the interference of the gravity. To make the tourbillon run well in the movement, without doubt, requires precise techniques and years of experience while to reach the goal on the hollow – out ore board is doubly difficult. At last, Audemars Piguet still gave heed to a design detail that the polished tourbillon with high gross surface dovetails nicely with the rose gold diamond ring around the watch dial, taking the harmonious and elegant style to the extreme. Thus it can be seen that this wristwatch hasn’t, though, undergone the world’s roughest and most complicated processing, it has gathered not a few world – class watchmakers’ immortal techniques and intelligence of infinity. And this wristwatch will make a figure in and be tested by the endless flow of time. During this period of time it may pass into silence; however, a few years later when you meet it unexpectedly, you will find that nothing can change it, including the time. And this is the charm that it always has.
