Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Minute Repeater Tourbillon Chronograph watch

The Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Minute Repeater Tourbillon Chronograph watch is a superb example of haute horlogerie at its summit, both technically and aesthetically. By combining a hand-wound column-wheel controlled chronograph with two of the most difficult complications in watchmaking, Audemars Piguet has created a stunningly beautiful luxury timepiece for the most discriminating of collectors and aficionados.

The stunning dials of the Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Minute Repeater Tourbillon Chronograph watch, display an intricate guilloche pattern which radiates in a fan-like pattern from the center of the dial, and is set off by elegant Roman numerals and leaf hands, all crafted from solid gold, and finely hand polished. The aperture at six o'clock shows the tourbillon cage, mounted on a polished steel bridge; its freely sprung balance features weighted screws, and beats at a pace of 21,600 vibrations per hour; each minute, the tourbillon cage completes a single revolution. Turning this exquisite Audemars Piguet timepiece on its backside reveals a movement that is in full accord with the highest degree of haute de gamme craftsmanship. All bridges are decorated with hand-applied Cotes de Geneve patterns, while the individual steel components display edges which have been meticulously chamfered and polished. Screw and jewel settings are countersunk, and each of these are also carefully polished.

By operating the chronograph mechanism, the exceptional refinement of this exclusive and extremely complex Audemars Piguet movement can be easily felt; at the same time its functions will fascinate lovers of mechanical watchmaking, as the precise advances of the column-wheel can be clearly admired. Equally captivating, are the hammers of the minute repeater which can be seen striking the gongs whenever the minute repeater is activated. Due to its technical intricacy, and the consequent demands it places upon the master watchmakers capable of building it, only a handful of these Audemars Piguet watches will leave the workshop in Le Brassus, Switzerland each year. Each Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Tourbillon Minute Repeater chronograph watch is completed by a fine hand-sewn and remborded crocodile strap equipped with a folding clasp in gold or platinum, elegantly shaped like the Audemars Piguet initials.