The Return to Yellow Gold
In 2016, Audemars Piguet brings the enduring lustre of yellow gold back to the forefront.
Launched in 1972, the Royal Oak was the first luxury watch to treat stainless steel, and meticulously craft, polish and decorate it, like a precious metal. Using steel in such a manner was a risk, yet ultimately a game-changing triumph. The revolution it launched opened a new and extremely creative chapter for Audemars Piguet, during which it explored traditional and unconventional materials in great depth: platinum, carbon, alacrite, bronze, rubber, ceramic, titanium, tantalum, etc...
Now Audemars Piguet breaks the rules again by returning luxury watchmaking to its most elemental material: yellow gold, the universal emblem of indestructible beauty, energy and light. The new Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar celebrates the timeless allure of yellow gold by combining it with the most classic and romantic complication.
Part of the inspiration for this new edition is the first Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar (reference 5554, later renamed 25554), designed by Jacqueline Dimier in 1984. Of the 279 pieces in that original launch, 229 were cased in yellow gold.
Technical Specifications:
The case, in 18kt yellow gold, measures 41mm. It has an AR-coated sapphire crystal, a sapphire display back, and it is water resistant to 20 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Audemars Piguet caliber 5134 with 38 jewels, 19,800 vph and a power reserve of 40 hours. Functions are: perpetual calendar with week indication, day, date, astronomical moon, month, leap year, hours and minutes.
The dial is blue with "Grande Tapisserie" pattern, yellow gold applied hour-markers and Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating, blue inner bezel.
It comes on an 18kt yellow gold bracelet with folding clasp.
It is delivered in a luxury box with watch winder.
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