The black satin-brushed dial is partly skeletonized to show the inner workings of this watch. The hour and minute hands are made of 18K white gold and are partly skeletonized as well. However, because they’re rather chunky, telling that the timing is not overly difficult, but legibility isn’t ideal. That having been said, this is not actually a bit where the hands are the focus. The running seconds hand to your chronograph is bright yellow to provide contrast against the black dial.Finally, the individual moment markers as well as the mark for the 30-minute chronograph in 3 o’clock are left in white and yellow to offer maximum contrast and legibility. The 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock can be unique because it shows the elapsed minutes with a retrograde index. And lastly, at six o’clock is that the tourbillon.The motion is where the magic all happens. It is obviously in-house, and it’s the calibre 2937. And like most of luxury chronograph movements, it has a column-wheel and lateral clutch.What’s unusual about it, however, is both gongs. Instead of mounting the gongs into the movement plate, they’re attached to what Audemars Piguet Most Expensive Watches Replica calls a “sound board” Essentially, it’s a thin membrane made from a special aluminum alloy which covers the back of the movement, held in place with screws, and also forming a water-tight seal. This explains how the Royal Oak Concept Supersonnerie Tourbillon Chronograph watch can acquire a water-resistance rating of 20 meters, which may not seem like much to a casual observer, but this couldn’t be more erroneous. The 20 meters is actually quite impressive considering the intricate structure of this watch.
Two year ago Audemars Piguet Watches And Prices Replica announced plans for a new museum, shaped like a glass spiral rising out of the pastoral fields of Le Brassus and designed by the same Danish architect responsible for Google’s new headquarters. The watchmaker broke ground on the the new building at the start of October 2016, capping two years of planning and design.
Designed by Danish architects BIG, short for Bjarke Ingels Group, the museum will be some 2800 square meters, or well over 30,000 square feet. Named Maison des Fondateurs, or “Home of the Founders”, the museum will have panoramic walls of curved glass along its entire length, topped by a roof garden.
The Audemars Piguet museum is just one of the high profile projects BIG is working on. Others include Two World Trade Center in New York City, Google’s sci-fi campus in Mountain View, and Lego House in Denmark.
But the museum will not be the only addition to the Audemars Piguet compound. Closed since early 2016, the quaint Hotel des Horlogers will be razed and replaced with a similarly stylish glass building designed by BIG with sloping buildings and long glass facades.
Owned by Audemars Piguet and separated from its factory by a carpark, the four star Hotel des Horlogers – or “watchmaker’s hotel” – will grow from 27 rooms to 65 and become a luxury hotel worthy of the visitors who make the pilgrimage to see expensive watches being produced.
Both the museum and hotel are slated to open in 2019.