{"id":3975,"date":"2013-01-14T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2013-01-14T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:41:38","slug":"audemars-piguet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/audemars-piguet-16.html","title":{"rendered":"Audemars Piguet : The art of grandes complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Grande Complication Royal Oak\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movement\u2009:<\/strong> mechanical self-winding Calibre 2885, 648 parts, openworked and finished by hand <strong>Case\u2009:<\/strong> white gold <strong>Diameter\u2009:<\/strong> 44 mm\u00a0<strong>Functions\u2009:<\/strong> hours, minutes, small seconds, split-second chronograph, perpetual calendar (date, day, week, month, leap years and moon phases), minute repeater\u00a0<strong>Dial\u2009:<\/strong> sapphire crystal, white counters, gold hands with luminescent coating\u00a0<strong>Caseback\u2009:<\/strong> sapphire crystal <strong>Strap\u2009:<\/strong> black crocodile leather<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">Since 1882, the year Audemars Piguet presented its first Grande Complication pocket-watch, the brand has been perpetuating the art of combining the three types of function traditionally associated with this category of timepiece\u2009: a chronograph \u2013 now equipped with a split-second function\u2009; a perpetual calendar\u2009; and a striking mechanism. Today, hardly a year goes by without the House offering collectors one or several creations, individually made to order by a single watchmaker. In 2012, the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary year of the Royal Oak, it was natural to present certain Grande Complication versions of the famous luxury sports watch, including the <strong>Grande Complication Royal Oak<\/strong> in white gold dedicated to the theme of transparency, yet without entirely unveiling its self-winding movement measuring a mere 8.55 mm thick. The culmination of 700 hours of work for the mechanism alone and of 120 hours of openworking, it features a classical structure on both the front and the\u00a0 back \u2013 which reveals the signature AP chased and skeletonised gold monobloc oscillating weight.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1882, the year Audemars Piguet presented its first Grande Complication pocket-watch, the brand has been perpetuating the art of combining the three types of function traditionally associated with this category of timepiece\u2009: a chronograph \u2013 now equipped with a split-second function\u2009; a perpetual calendar\u2009; and a striking mechanism. Today, hardly a year goes by without the House offering collectors one or several creations, individually made to order by a single watchmaker. In 2012, the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary year of the Royal Oak, it was natural to present certain Grande Complication versions of the famous luxury sports watch, including the <strong>Grande Complication Royal Oak<\/strong> in white gold dedicated to the theme of transparency, yet without entirely unveiling its self-winding movement measuring a mere 8.55 mm thick. The culmination of 700 hours of work for the mechanism alone and of 120 hours of openworking, it features a classical structure on both the front and the\u00a0 back \u2013 which reveals the signature AP chased and skeletonised gold monobloc oscillating weight.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}